BPA isn't all bad after all...go figure.

Like I have BEEN saying, it's all a bunch of hullabaloo. In catching up with the news since I got back, I found this tidbit on MSNBC: Baby bottle chemical levels safe, agency says. Turns out that humans metabolize BPA differently than rats and it is of no harm to babies or anyone else.

A scientific panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has looked into how people metabolize BPA and concluded that [the] tiny amounts of the chemical to which humans are exposed leave [the] body quick enough to cause no harm, EFSA said.

“The conclusions of the panel are that after exposure to BPA the human body rapidly metabolizes and eliminates the substance. This represents an important metabolic difference compared with rats,” EFSA said in a statement.

Responding to worries about babies’ health, EFSA said newborns were able to metabolize and eliminate BPA at doses below 1 milligram per kilogram of body weight per day — even above the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) of 0.05 mg/kg/bw a day.

“Exposure of the human fetus to BPA would be negligible because the mother rapidly metabolizes and eliminates BPA from her body,” said the agency based in Parma in northern Italy.

In its previous BPA risk assessment in 2006, EFSA set a TDI of 0.05 mg/kg/bw based on the no-observed-adverse-effect level of 5 mg/kg body weight/day for effects in rats and included an uncertainty factor of 100.

You don't say? I have to say I feel kind of vindicated. I have been saying all along that this was just media hype that the bottle manufactures jumped on (and made a ton of money in the process).

Is there stuff out there that you should avoid? SURE!! But apparently plastic baby bottles are one less thing you have to worry about. And seriously, plastic is everywhere. You can't get away from it. If it was supposedly "bad" for your baby, why wasn't it "bad" for you as an adult? I'm just saying...