Comment: I'v e been predicting this one for years. Look for more cancer connections with plastics. Particularly dangerous is the current habit of microwaving foods that are in plastic containers or wrapped in plastic. A great new product is a stainless steel water bottle. Get a good water purification unit for your home, and fill the bottle up daily. Within a short time the money saved on buying bottled water will more than pay for the water purifier. www.kleankanteen.com has the water bottles.
A chemical widely used in food packaging may be a contributing factor to women developing breast cancer, scientists have suggested.
The study links the compound to the development of hormone sensitive tissue in mice and has prompted environmental campaigners to call for far tighter regulation of such chemicals.
Experiments at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts, have potentially worrying implications for human health since they suggest mammary glands of female mice grow in a way that makes them more likely to develop breast cancer and also to respond unusually to oestrogen, which fuels most breast cancer in humans.
The compound involved is called bisphenol-A or BPA. It is used in plastic food containers, cans and dental sealants and other research suggests it leaches from products and is absorbed in low concentrations by the human body
Scientists link plastic food containers with breast cancer
