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Plastic Bottles Leach Chemicals Into Humans Saturday, May 23, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that participants who drank for a week from polycarbonate bottles, the popular, hard-plastic drinking bottles and baby bottles, showed a two-thirds increase in their urine of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Exposure to BPA, used in the manufacture of polycarbonate and other plastics, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. (source: hsph.harvard.edu)
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