The FDA released its report on BPA and it's a mixed bag:
The good news is that the FDA now admits that BPA—the endocrine-disrupting, heart disease-causing ingredient in plastic food packaging and can linings—isn’t entirely safe (contradicting the agency’s statement from 2008 that it was), particularly for infants and children. The bad news? There’s not much the agency can do about it.
It's a huge breakthrough that the FDA has admitted to the harmful effects of BPA, but, the report says, once a formulation for a product is approved (BPA has been) there's not much it can do. In other words, they're powerless and require an act of Congress to make it happen. But here's what they can do:
--support the industry’s actions to stop producing BPA-containing baby bottles and infant feeding cups for the U.S. market;
--facilitate the development of alternatives to BPA for the linings of infant formula cans;
--and support efforts to replace BPA or minimize BPA levels in other food can linings.