WASHINGTON — An unusual tactic embraced by one House lawmaker to keep bisphenol A out of food packaging met with limited success this month after federal regulators agreed to initiate a ban of the ...

SALEM – The Legislature is looking to follow in the footsteps of Walmart and other retailers who are backing away from baby bottles and sippy cups with the potential endocrine-disrupting chemical ...

The research has been going on for more than 10 years. Studies number in the hundreds. Millions of dollars have been spent. But government health officials still cannot decide whether the chemical ...

Californians this summer are starting to see a new warning at checkout lines of grocery stores, pharmacies and convenience markets that the products on their shelves may include a dangerous chemical.

In a surprising about-face, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has admitted "some concerns" about the safety of a chemical common in hundreds of plastic products, from baby bottles to soda cans.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the use of the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) in packaging for baby formula. In a statement on Friday (11 July), the FDA said it will publish a final ...

A week before the Olympic games kick off in Paris, France has recalled a line of Olympics-themed water bottles for children. According to Rappel Conso, the official consumer recall agency, the ...

CR tested over 40 baby formulas for heavy metals as well as lead, arsenic, BPA, and other potentially harmful contaminants.

Consumer Reports has unleashed its findings on toxic levels of Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging on a largely unsuspecting public. Before the report, many felt the BPA danger had passed with the ...

Green Toys, a San Francisco-based company, makes its toy tugboats from recycled plastic milk containers that are free of BPA, PVC and phthalates. Terry Collins will tell you BPA is a scary compound.