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Published online 9 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070806-9
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US panel has 'some concern' about effects of bisphenol A
Worries over neural effects in children, but reassurances on other risks.
A US government-appointed scientific panel has said it has "some concern" that a compound found in many plastics may cause neural and behavioural abnormalities in infants and children at concentrations normally found in humans. But the panel found negligible concern that those exposed to typical levels of the compound, called bisphenol A, would develop reproductive problems or birth defects.
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