It s a chemical compound traditionally used in the manufacture of plastics including food grade plastics.
Bpa free water bottles meaning in hindi.
Bpa is just one set of chemicals that have estrogenic activity he says.
Reusable water bottles plastic plates the liners in canned foods sippy cups grocery receipts and even some dental sealants.
Whether in food packaging cds toys thermal paper receipts plastic water bottles or jugs it is hard to escape the contact with the chemical bisphenol a bpa.
But as people drank from their water.
Photo by kyle leboeuf bisphenol a bpa is a synthetic estrogen used in polycarbonate plastic products.
So while you may have had many products containing the chemical in your house a few decades ago it s.
Makers of many other water bottles and containers have voluntarily stopped using bpa as well.
Bittner who is also founder of the testing company certichem.
Bpa free products don t contain bpa but they still contain chemicals asserts dr.
We known it can cause hormonal changes and otherwise negatively.
Soon bpa was everywhere.
It s become controversial because it s well established that the compound leaches into food and drink.
Bpa stands for bisphenol a.
The european agency for food safety adopted recently a new risk assessment of the substance and significantly reduced the limit for daily recommended daily intake of 50 micrograms per kilogram.