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Mammary Gland Development Altered by BPA

Bisphenol-A is a dangerous compound that can be found in plastic. For years, experts have been drawing attention to its negative effects on health, but its use has yet to be forbidden entirely. Now, experts find new data that it affects the development of mammary glands in primates. The common plastic additive is b...

8 May 2012
14:21 GMT

Download Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server Caching BPA Tool

Microsoft has just made available for download the Microsoft AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server Caching Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Tool. The new utility, available for download from Softpedia as well, via this link, was designed to compare the existing cache cluster configuration and settings to a set of recommended...

3 March 2012
06:21 GMT

American Children Threatened by Toxic Toys

A new reports issued by a team of experts from the Environmental Health Strategy Center indicates that over 650 brand name products keep a terrible secret. Scientists reached the conclusion that they contain two hormone-disrupting toxic chemicals that can threaten the wellbeing of their consumers. After reading t...

14 December 2011
04:19 GMT

BPA Exposure During Pregnancy May Affect Girls

Exposing the fetus to bisphenol A during pregnancy may be linked to a host of behavioral problems in girls, a group of investigators from the Harvard University School of Public Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate. The team says that the same type of connection was not discover...

24 October 2011
09:21 GMT

BPA Contaminations Reduces Ova Quality

The oil-derived chemical compound bisphenol A (BPA) is coming under increasingly fervent attack from everyone in the United States except health authorities. In yet another study to show the harmful effects of this substance, researchers determined that it reduce the quality of the female ovum. This is the first time...

15 December 2010
10:59 GMT

Dangerous BPA Can Pass Through the Skin

According to a new research conducted in France, it would appear that the dangerous compound BPA (bisphenol A) can pass through human skin. This raises new concerns about the safety of this chemical.BPA is one of the most common chemicals. We come in contact with products containing it every day, mostly plastics and ...

3 November 2010
06:11 GMT

BPA Permeates the World's Oceans

Bisphenol A (BPA) is now one of the most scrutinized chemicals in the world. Various research groups have determined that it can have negative effects on the human body when ingested, and more work is currently underway to determine whether that is indeed true or not. But the chemical does resemble the hormone e...

25 March 2010
11:34 GMT

Bisphenol A Tied to Heart Diseases

The common chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has been heatedly debated upon for quite some time now. Some researchers suggested that there seemed to be a link between exposure to this substance and a host of medical conditions, including diseases of the heart and the circulatory system, but other groups could not verify thi...

14 January 2010
08:39 GMT

Bisphenol A Hinders Mice's Reproduction

The effects of bisphenol A, a chemical widely found in plastic products, have been debated ardently over the past few years, with strong arguments on both sides. And, since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seems unable to take control of the issue and give a final verdict, researchers from the University of ...

9 July 2009
13:21 GMT

Dangerous Chemicals Found in Food Packages

It's common knowledge that plastic-generating processes can have some pretty nasty chemicals created as a by-product. It's also known that some of these dangerous substances make their way into a few of the finished products, which account for a multi-billion dollar income for companies in the chemical indu...

15 October 2008
04:07 GMT

The Search for Replacing the Troublesome Plastic Chemical

A recent study that associated bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound found in plastic, with increased risk of heart diseases and diabetes had plastic production-related and plastic using companies act like cats on hot bricks, and currently, there is a race against the clock to find a proper, clinically-attested subs...

18 September 2008
11:07 GMT


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