Can your baby get cancer from plastic feeding bottles?(0)
Yes. The National Toxicology Program says exposure to BPA, a chemical found in plastic packaging including baby bottles, early in life makes a fetus or child more susceptible to breast or prostate cancer, ADD, early puberty for girls, and other reproductive or neurological disorders.
The estrogen-like chemical BPA is one of the most common in industry today. It is everywhere: from water bottles to baby bottles and even the plastic lining of cans of infant formula. The chemical seeps to our food and drinks and enters our body. Though we all have some level of BPA, only babies and fetuses suffer. This is the first time a national agency has expressed concern about safety of BPA. Even FDA so far has insisted that BPA was safe. The plastic industry responded saying there is “no serious or high-level concerns.” If damage to brain, prostate and mammary glands are not serious, it is hard to imagine what is.
Though the plastic with BPA is everywhere, there are plastic products for babies that are free of BPA. Environmental groups have long been warning about BPA, and soon it may be banned in Canada.
