http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-girls/2413101/

Argh! When will they get around to banning this in the US?

Never, I found this out a couple of years ago right before they started banning it in infant bottles. I avoid any plastic with BPA. Try to drink from glass cups. Even at work the water cooler bottle is made up of BPA, so I bring in my own gallon of water which is in a non-bpa plastic.

There were studies done with mice that showed BPA causes insulin resistance with 100 times less amounts then what the first studies showed.

BPA is even in your canned vegetables as a preserver.

It sickens me that our FDA allowed this stuff. Tell me why do we need canned food that last for 30 years?

If you avoid BPA then you:

1) Don't buy canned goods -- lines the cans
2) Don't touch grocery store receipts

I forget all the weird ways they use it. Cosmetics, shampoo too, I think.

Actually, even if you use BPA free stuff, all plastics (I read recently) as they're current made, contain estrogen analogs. They could change but it would be expensive (blah, blah, blah).

How to avoid BPA...

YOU CAN'T.


Seriously.
It's everywhere. Don't eat anything canned or jarred (the top is lined). Don't touch recepts. Don't use any thing with teflon so anything labeled "non-stick" or that's been Scotch Guarded. Don't drink from plastic bottles or cups. Don't use any kind of plastic food storage container.

And, oh yeah, even things labeled BPA-free probably BPS instead which pretty much behaves in the same way.

So good luck with that.

Sorry to be blunt but it is a contaminated world we live in.

I use the ceramic non-stick pots and pans. They don't work quite as well as teflon but they do work better than nothing.

Wow estrogen uh I will have to look that up.

I do my best to limit my exposure to BPA. I can atleast minimize the amount of damage it does by taking certain steps.