Another Reason To Ditch The Plastic Bottle

Even though the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has concluded that there is only "some concern" to "negligible concern" over the health impact of bisphenol A (BPA), new animal testing is arriving at a more drastic conclusion:

New animal studies link the chemical bisphenol A, which leaches from such polycarbonate plastics and food can linings, with heart arrhythmias in females and permanent damage to a gene important for reproduction.

Although the CDC already knows that BPA is in the urine of over 90% of the US population, the majority of studies on the substance have been limited to animals, leaving the long term impacts on our health unknown. Because of this lack of knowledge, the substance has already been banned in Canada; Chicago; Minnesota; Connecticut; Suffolk County, NY; and legislation is pending in California.

I say take a preemptive strike and start using glass bottles or plastics that don't contain BPA.