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    Issue 6/2015 - EU assessment concludes that BPA does not threaten consumer health

    • Last Update: 2022-11-13
    • Source: Internet
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    The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) believes that at current exposure levels (both dietary and non-dietary exposures), bisphenol A (BPA) does not threaten the health of
    consumers, including fetuses, infants and adolescents.

    BPA is used in the manufacture of polycarbonate plastics, which can be used to produce materials that come into contact with food, such as plastic bottles, plastic cutlery and paint on the lining of cans
    .
    BPA is also widely used in thermal paper
    used in cash registers.
    EFSA's study found that even as measured by the most recently reduced safe level (TDI, tolerable daily intake), consumers of all ages consume much less BPA through food, dust, cosmetics and thermal paper
    .

    The new data and research method allowed EFSA scientists to reduce the safe level of BPA from 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight to 4 micrograms
    .
    Despite this, the dietary exposure or total exposure to BPA in different age groups is only 1/5~1/3
    of TDI.
    According to the worst estimates, the exposure level of 0~6 months old infants fed with feeding is only 1/50
    of TDI.
    (Pang Xiaohua)



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