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Published online 17 September 2008 | Nature 455, 276 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455276f

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  • Everyone interested in BPA and its threat to human health should also read another study just published this week on the effect of BPA in a non-human primate brain: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/37/14187.full It's food for thought. I was skeptical of BPA's dangers for a while, thinking it was akin to the thimerosol uproar, but it seems like more evidence it building against the safety of BPA. The question is, what are we going to do with all those Nalgene bottles people are going to toss in the landfill now?

    • 17 Sep, 2008
    • Posted by: Chris Noto