Organizations Petition FDA to Deny BPA Approvals, Limit Use in Food and Beverage
On Thursday, January 27, 2022, a group of physicians, researchers, and public health and environmental organizations petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rescind its approvals for bisphenol A (BPA). The petition called FDA to revoke its approval for BPA in adhesives in coatings and set a strict limit on its use in plastics that are used for food.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently released new findings that show that harmful effects from BPA exposure can occur at levels that are 100,000 times lower than previously found. The "safe level" is more than 5,000 times less than the levels to which what FDA says most Americans are safely exposed.