| # | First Name | Last Name | Customized Message |
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| 1 | Luke Gerfery | |
| 2 | Anonymous | Anonymous | This harmful chemical should be banned now! |
| 3 | Carter | Beckett | |
| 4 | Susan | Michez | |
| 5 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 6 | Joe | Kirwin | I urge Canada to ban this terrbull thing!...
My hair is way too boofontish for my face... I'm a tool. |
| 7 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 8 | Anonymous | Anonymous | BPA is dangerous and its effects are unknown to a certain degree. Don't let us continue to be lab rats and suffer the consequences. |
| 9 | Bev | Atkinson | |
| 10 | Tricia | Lewis | |
| 11 | Mary | Maron | |
| 12 | Ashley | C. | |
| 13 | vince | macdonald | |
| 14 | Rod | Potter | Yes -- let's ban these chemicals now. It's time for 10% of the population to stop getting rich by poisoning the rest. |
| 15 | Barry | Millett | |
| 16 | Roger | Jones | |
| 17 | Barbara | Jermey | this needs to be banned ASAP |
| 18 | Mel | Jones | It is the duty of officials to ensure the safety of the public. Please use your powers to stop this additive from being used in consumer products. It is not safe, and therefore should be illegal. There are alternatives, and we could be using them. Especially for those that aren't even aware of Bisphenol A! Thank you. |
| 19 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 20 | Wayne | Campbell | It concerns a debate over the safety of low doses of a chemical used to make hard, clear plastics such as those found in baby bottles, food-storage containers and the lining of soda cans.
When the plastic industry examines the health impact of a ubiquitous chemical called bisphenol A, everything's fine.
If the government or a university funds the study, there are big problems.
Those are the conclusions drawn by Frederick vom Saal, a developmental biologist at the University of Missouri who reports his findings in Environmental Health Perspectives, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Vom Saal and others seek revised risk assessments for the chemical in the light of a new research into its effects.
Bisphenol A mimics the sex hormone estradiol in the body, acting "like birth control pills," says vom Saal. The body is exquisitely sensitive to sex hormones, needing only tiny amounts to trigger major changes. That's why scientists are concerned about the impact of even the extremely low levels of bisphenol A found in people.
In mice and rats there is evidence that low doses of bisphenol A can cause structural damage to the brain, hyperactivity, abnormal sexual behavior, increased fat formation, early puberty and disrupted reproductive cycles.
Vom Saal looked at 115 published studies concerning low-doses of bisphenol A. Overall, 94 of them reported significant effects in rats and mice, while 21 did not.
Eleven of the studies were funded by chemical companies. None of those 11 found harmful effects of the chemical, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is detected in 95% of all people tested.
But more than 90% of the studies conducted by independent scientists not associated with the chemical industry found adverse consequences, says vom Saal. He called the disparity between the industry and government or university conclusions "stunning."
Steven Hentges of the American Plastics Council counters that the article is not a research paper but a commentary — "an op-ed" piece rather than a scientific paper. The real issue is the weight of evidence, he says, not the number of studies.
"You can have 1,000 studies, but if they're all weak, adding up weak evidence doesn't necessarily give you strong evidence of anything," Hentges says. "Jumping to who sponsored it is a way to dodge the facts."
He says that, in the view of the plastic industry, vom Saal has presented nothing new to change the conclusion that there's no cause for concern. "Government bodies worldwide have reached the conclusion that bisphenol A is not a risk to humans at very low levels."
Over 6 billion tons of bisphenol A are used each year to make polycarbonate plastics, which have the useful property of not becoming brittle over time. First synthesized in 1957, the material didn't come into widespread use until the 1970s.
Chemical bonds that bisphenol A forms in plastic can unravel when heated, washed or exposed to acidic foods, causing the chemical to leach into foods.
"There's good evidence to show cause for concern," says Patricia Hunt, whose research found abnormalities in developing egg cells in female mice when exposed to low levels of bisphenol A.
"We now know enough to know that we need to look at this stuff in great detail," she says. |
| 21 | Elena | Pintilie | Time to act on this is now. Thank you. |
| 22 | marie-anne | le clerc | |
| 23 | pete | bradley | |
| 24 | Dusty | Washburn | |
| 25 | serge | vrabec | |
| 26 | Melissa | Cotterill | |
| 27 | Anonymous | Anonymous | . |
| 28 | amanda | morales | |
| 29 | Stephen | Mitchell | |
| 30 | annick | rouiller | |
| 31 | Gerry | Leaman | |
| 32 | Matt | Zyweck | |
| 33 | Matt | Zyweck | |
| 34 | Nicholas | Graham | It is not a question of whether or not companies can afford to make these changes immediately, rather it is that as a society we cannot afford to not make them. |
| 35 | Kerry | Bowman | It's about time Canada became more responsible about this issue. |
| 36 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 37 | B | CCC | It's not A, it's eh! If you're going to quote us get it right. |
| 38 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 39 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 40 | Daniel | Kuiper | |
| 41 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 42 | John | Smith | Bisphenol A is, without a doubt, something that Canada should ban. It is a dangerous substance, period! |
| 43 | Jim | Prall | |
| 44 | Zach | Clarke | I think that banning Bisphenol A is a crucially important health issue that should have been banned years ago. |
| 45 | Vanessa | Marttila | |
| 46 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 48 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 49 | dr ramesh | kadavarath | |
| 50 | dr ramesh | kadavarath | but mercury and lead are more of our concern |