Fred vom Saal
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Frederick vom Saal is an activist-researcher at the University of Missouri who claims that very low doses of chemicals can acts as endocrine disrupters. Vom Saal's claims about low dose effects have not been replicated by independent scientists and he has refused to provide his data to government reviewers at the National Toxicology Program. Vom Saal's research has been funded by the radical Environmental Working Group.
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- Impossible safety standard. Vom Saal said there is no way to know how much safer the alternatives will be because they haven’t faced nearly the same amount of scrutiny as BPA. Local thermal paper company responds to BPA concerns in receipts, NBCActionNews.com, September 24, 2010.
- "I won't touch receipts, now." Receipts a large — and largely ignored — source of BPA, Science News, August 28th, 2010.
- "The science is clear and the findings are not just scary, they are horrific. Why [would] you feed a baby out of a clear, hard plastic bottle – it's like giving a baby a birth control pill?" Let common sense guide you in the saga of bisphenol A, The Independent (UK), April 13, 2010.
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- Sharpe R, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/richard-sharpe-let-common-sense-guide-you-in-the-saga-of-bisphenol-a-1942935.html Let common sense guide you in the saga of bisphenol A], The Independent (UK), April 13, 2010.
- Butterworth T, Is BPA the New MMR?, STATS.org, April 7, 2010.
- Butterworth T and Lichter S, Case of chemophobia, National Post, June 17, 2009.
- Milloy, S Activists Hit the (Plastic) Bottle Again, FoxNews.com, September 18, 2008.
- Foster P, The polluted debate on bisphenol A, National Post, April 17, 2008
- Butterworth T, Manufacturing Consensus, STATS.org, April 11, 2007.
- Milloy S, Coming Soon: More Chemical Scares Than Anyone Dreamed Possible, FoxNews.com, May 20, 2001.
- Fumento M, The Environmentalists' Scary Baby Bottle Blather, Washington Times, May 16, 1999.
