From Science Now (online "Science" magazine), 1 April 2003:

[Warning: article below discusses animal testing.]

"Plastics Ingredient Scrambles Chromosomes"

Short quotes from the article:

A compound used in many common plastic products, including baby
bottles and dental sealants, causes genetic abnormalities in mice...

In August 1998, geneticist Patricia Hunt noticed a bizarre change
in the eggs of the female mice she was studying. For some
inexplicable reason, the chromosomes in 40% of the eggs looked
abnormal--a wild jump from the 1% to 2% abnormality her lab
typically observes...

After a good bit of detective work, Hunt and her colleagues at
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, pinned the
meiotic abnormalities on a chemical called bisphenol A (BPA)
leaching from the damaged plastic.


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Tom Billings