New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have proposed a new bill that would ban the use of bisphenol-A, known as BPA, in any food container linings used for infant and toddler foods. BPA is used in plastics as a hardening agent, and has been linked to increased cancer rates, reproductive, and neurological problems.
BPA is currently used in the plastic lining of many canned goods, interior linings of milk cartons and juice boxes, and in some baby bottles and drinking cups used by infants and toddlers.
More than two dozen states already have bills pending that would ban BPA from various forms of food containers. In 2008 the Federal Drug Administration ruled that BPA was safe, but received sharp criticism when it was revealed that the two studies used by the FDA to determine bisphenol-A safety were funded solely by the BPA industry.
BPA is banned in most European countries and in 2008 Canada declared the chemical a toxin and banned its use in baby bottles.
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