Toxic or Chemical?

Canada May Label Widely Used Plastic Component Toxic, NYT Says

2008-04-15 21:45 (New York)

By Khaleeq Ahmed

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian government will likely declare as toxic a chemical used for baby bottles and other foodcontainers, the News York Times reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.

The person, who declined to be identified because of a confidentiality agreement, said work to list the compound, called bisphenol A, or B.P.A., as a toxic chemical was finished and was endorsed recently by a panel of outside scientists, the Times reported.

An announcement from Health Canada could come as early as tomorrow and would be the first by a country against the compound, which has been shown to affect the hormonal systems of animals, according to the newspaper.

A spokesman for Health Canada declined to answer questions, the Times said.

For related news:
Health stories from the U.S.: {TNI US HEA BN }
Other stories about B.P.A.: {NSE BISPHENOL }

--Editors: Elizabeth Wollman, Sau Chan

To contact the reporter on this story:
Khaleeq Ahmed in San Francisco at +1-650-745-5599 or
kkhan8@bloomberg.net

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Elizabeth Wollman at +1-415-617-7138 or
ewollman@bloomberg.net

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