Chemical linked to low sperm count, obesity and cancer found in dummies, tests find
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BPA, a synthetic chemical used in production of plastics, found in baby products made by three big European brands

BPA, a synthetic chemical used in production of plastics, found in baby products made by three big European brands

A chemical linked to impaired sexual development, obesity and cancer has been found in baby dummies manufactured by three big European brands.

Dummies made by the Dutch multinational Philips, the Swiss oral health specialists Curaprox and the French toy brand Sophie la Girafe were found to contain bisphenol A (BPA), according to laboratory testing by dTest, a Czech consumer organisation. Philips said they had carried out subsequent testing and found no BPA, while Sophie la Girafe said the amount found was insignificant.

All three dummies were marketed as either “BPA- free” or “natural rubber”.

BPA is a synthetic chemical used in the production of plastics, but it has a structure similar to the female hormone, oestrogen, which it mimics in the bodies of humans and other animals.

  • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    51·
    25 days ago

    It’s important to remember that when BPA was shown to be harmful and was replaced in products, the replacements weren’t picked because they were shown to be safer, they were picked because there were no studies about them at all.

    And when the replacements were studied, most of them turned out to be similar or even worse.

    It’s plastic itself which is the problem.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    So BPA causes obesity? This is all correlation. BPA started as a failed attempt to make a synthetic hormone, but then some really shitty science injecting massive quantities into mice which the media has grabbed on to. BPA does not have estrogenic effects, it just doesn’t. If it did, it would be used as a synthetic estrogen.

    The problem is obesity, but shit epidemiology wants to connect fake dots for legal firms. This is exactly how vaccines and autism bullshit started.

  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    25 days ago

    Alex Jones is IMO a toxic asshole

    But he wasn’t completely wrong about this

    In fact, his crusade on this issue allowed companies to dismiss it as a right wing hoax

    Always check to see if the weirdos are right

    You have to possess the maturity to separate the crazy from the real