Yet Another Study Says BPA Is Everywhere and Its Linked to CancerMelissa Melton That means that a plastic chemical found all over the place can set someone up to get prostate cancer before he is even born. BPA, a nearly ubiquitous plasticizer found in everything from soup can liners to plastic water bottles, has perhaps been more widely publicized for its link in studies to breast cancer, but its also been linked to a myriad of other negative health symptoms including everything from altering metabolism, leading to obesity, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and ultimately diabetes, to hormone-related issues like thyroid dysfunction, to painful reproductive system disorders like polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and infertility among many other health issues. The detrimental effects of BPA are so widely known at this point, that countries like Canada have officially listed it as a toxic substance, and France has actually banned all BPA from food packaging in the country by 2015. Considering the fact that some six billion pounds of BPA are produced annually and over a million pounds of it are released into the environment every year, on top of the multitude of studies showing BPA is more harmful to people and the environment than it is helpful, what is the FDA doing here in America to protect the public health as the agencys mission states? Answer? Barely anything at all. While the FDA did ban BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups in 2012 (finally, after a bunch of other countries did it first years earlier), the FDA rejected a petition that same year by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to outright ban the dangerous chemical in our food packaging. Worse, apparently because 90% of Americans have BPA present in their bloodstream, theres a claim that reliable studies cannot be done because a BPA-free control group would be tough to find! (I bet if you asked most people, the fact that the vast majority of us here in the U.S. have blood tainted with a plastic chemical to the point a reliable study cant even be done is proof enough we probably need tougher regulations, science or no science). Then again, we are living in the same country where doctors and scientists throw common sense completely out the window with claims like, because there are no long-term studies to show that eating less pesticide is better for you, theres no valid proof that it is. (I mean, I havent read a long-term study that says jumping naked in a vat of starving, rabid piranha fish is bad for my health either, but common sense says its just not that bright of an idea) The FDAs official statement on BPA is filled with ridiculous, whiny-sounding excuses about the fact that, because BPA was approved 40 years ago (when the agency should have done its job in the first place and made sure the stuff was safe to begin with), it would be really tough to regulate it now: So the FDA would have to undertake a lengthy process of rulemaking to get a dangerous, potentially cancer-causing agent away from us and our children? BOO-FREAKIN-HOO. How about people are dying of cancer and women are having fertility issues all over the place and developing fetuses are being damaged before they even have a chance to be born and this is one more antagonist that could be causing it and should be avoided? Then again, with an ex-Monsanto Vice President for Public Policy currently (laughingly) sitting as our FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods, I guess we really cant expect all that much from the agency anyway. Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 