National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

• Comment. This scare was launched via press conference with no new scientific study published or offered for review. Both Dr. Prins, who gave the lecture, and Dr. Heindel, the organizer, are allies of Fred vom Saal, and so are not objective and disinterested parties regarding their opinions of the BPA science. The press briefing was typical of the staged events that the anti-chemical activists do so well — maximized for media and no opportunity for examination of data and methods. Indeed a cynic might describe the press event as part of a campaign to distract attention from the recent European Food Safety Authority report that found, once again, no reason for concern regarding the safety of BPA. That activist campaign has claimed that the EFSA report ignored biomonitoring studies. And yesterday, there was an announcement of a new study to be published at the end of the month that, allegedly, will support the activists’ interpretation of the biomonitoring data. In short, expect to see more announcements of studies and results designed to distract attention from the EFSA report and keep the BPA issue highly visible in the public mind.
• Gender bending chemicals in plastics 'raises risk of prostate cancer, Daily Mail (UK), October 6, 2010.

Additional Resources

• Butterworth T, Is BPA the New MMR?, STATS.org, April 7, 2010.
• Milloy S and Gough M, Silencing Science In The Climate Debate, Investor's Business Daily, August 7, 1998.