Last week, Minnesota became the first state to ban BPA from plastic baby bottles and sippy cups. Wednesday, the Chicago City Council voted to ban the sale of baby bottles and sippy cups containing the chemical BPA.
Bisphenol A hardens plastics and can also be used to line food containers. Experts disagree on whether it poses health risks to humans.
Here's the best part of the release about this: "But the American Chemistry Council says the ban is unwarranted and not based on science."
Well, gosh, American Chemistry Council. That must be a bunch of expert scientists who really know what's going on.
Not so much.
The "council" is actually a trade group of manufacturers who use various plastics and chemicals. Short version: These are the people who make money off of products that use BPA. Why didn't the article mention that.
When you read this column, you know I'm unabashadly green. I have an agenda: To get you to help save the planet. The American Chemistry Council has an agenda too, but the article didn't mention that. It should have said, "BPA and plastics manufacturers say the ban is unwarranted." That would be a lot clearer.
Julie Todd is the night editor at The Herald News in Joliet. She and her
husband are looking to cut the chemicals and get back to basics -- minus the
granola and hemp clothing. They live in a home they bought last year in
Plainfield, where they're making changes to create their own little patch of
utopia.
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