In a study whose results will persuade many men to carefully read about the composition of plastic drinking bottles, researchers at the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute have found that men who handled BPA in a factory (and had levels of exposure to BPA that were 50 times what an average U.S. man faces) were four times as likely to suffer from erectile
dysfunction and seven times as likely to have difficulty with
ejaculation than men who did not handle the chemical. The Washington Post reports that
BPA, which was developed in the 1930s as a synthetic version of
estrogen, appears to throw off the hormonal balance in the human body. Today it is used in thousands of plastic products, and it has been detected in the urine of 93 percent of the U.S. population.
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Thomas Jefferson warned that an unregualted economy would destroy itself. His concern was that some persons and/or companies would do ahything to sell a product even if the product was unsafe and posed a direct threat to the consumer.
This basically boils down to the seller killing off its customers by the very product it sells, which should give diminished profit returns.
Our government not only allows unsafe products to be sold but actually encourages the same practice as such is now part and parcle of the Western Capitalist system and as long as the government gets its share, it will more than willing to turn a blind eye.
Of course, the consumer is also to blame by practicing a willing and deliberate form of ignorance as they gladly line up to buy any and every “new” thing that come along and is toted by Madison Avenue.
What could be the purpose of putting a form of estrogen into a plastic? The answer is that there is no purpose other.
In the West, one gets what one pays for and then more and we have no one to blame except ourselves.
Where to get a list of products that will provide the information about the name
of the products and its cause and effect relationship, due to the ingestion or general use of the product.
The US has the FDA. It’ not perfect but it works. I suspect wild reactions based on one limited unscientific study. I also suspect the anti capitalistic environmental movement!
In history it has come to light the west is not the cold hearted wealth minded mogule you have portrayed. The west is the reason you can spout nonsense. The west is the reason you have a car a rights a constitution and the list goes on. Now you want to blame some one lets see where plastic which displaces a large quantity when heated in a microwave was made. Seems london was the great bringer of plastic to all and a swiss perfected it even more and not until the 1930’s did the US begin to exploit the use of plastic. It all comes from what drives you around CRUDE OIL.
In 1899, Arthur Smith received British Patent 16,275, for “phenol-formaldehyde resins for use as an ebonite substitute in electrical insulation”, the first patent for processing a formaldehyde resin. However, in 1907, Leo Hendrik Baekeland improved phenol-formaldehyde reaction techniques and invented the first fully synthetic resin to become commercially successful, tradenamed Bakelite.
LEARN HISTORY BEFORE YOU SPOUT
This is a startting point to look at just to know how and why bpa is released and what kind of products have it in them and how to identify these items. Just an FYI “Plastic and your microwave do not mix.”