The Effects Of Bpa On Human Health

Thesis: Plastic water bottles were created to make our life easier; however the pollution it has made has linked to cancer and chemicals not known fifty years ago.

The overall food contamination by Bisphenol A is unknown, but the nutrition/ health impact of this chemical is an important subject to be discussed for all individuals. The main aim of one study recently analyzed was to assess the reproductive impact of BPA leached from regularly available polycarbonate plastic containers. The bottles specifically chosen for testing were those that were used by children. The migration of BPA occurs in polycarbonate plastics (i.e. water bottles and baby bottles). Toxicology reports show society the importance of evaluating these products before purchase and consumption as a consumer. For a particular experiment, researchers used Daphnia Magna, a small flea that cleans and absorbs particles that infect the solution they are placed in, and bred them in the polycarbonate containers. A control group was created using water bottles without the infection of these creatures. A GC-MS machine to detect the level of BPA released by each polycarbonate plastic then evaluated the water. An increase in the reproduction of BPA was detected when the Daphnia Magna were bred inside the container. Although these organisms effected the leaching of Bisphenol A, the GC-MS was able to detect, through the control group, that BPA is released without DM. An Eco toxicological effect was observed through all of this testing, and provided evidence to substantiate the fact that Bisphenol A is leached from polycarbonate plastics. The BPA was further analyzed in the Daphnia

Then Oil mention Bisphenol A or BPA is used to make polycarbonate plastic which is now banned in Canada and European Union (Bridge and Le Billon, pg. 81). Also, some countries of the world are banning or put some sort of tax on plastics. This makes one to wonder why these countries are reducing or stop using plastic all together. Of course it might be that they see the health and environmental issues behind using plastic products. This causes the mass production of plastic bottles and now they are everywhere.

Besides being costly to the environment and to users, consuming bottled water does not come without health concerns. The plastic in bottled water, PET, breaks down and releases toxic chemicals into the water. “A study of 132 brands of bottled

Arguments in favor of BPA’s continued commercial use center on the assertion that each exposure is so minimal that the lifetime risk to human health is not serious enough to call for a ban on a chemical with a variety of commercial applications. While the argument appears to focus on degree of exposure rather than on a debate about whether or not chemicals do, in fact, have the potential to leach, vulnerabilities in certain individuals make the specific “safe” exposure level difficult to identify definitively.

The movie documentary Tapped has opened not only mine, but a group of society’s eyes to what harm we are actually causing upon on ourselves with an action so little as to drinking out of plastics bottles. People have been drinking out of bottle waters assuming that what the are drinking out of is safe but once over thousands of plastic bottles were tested huge concerns grew. Studies show that varieties of bacteria and chemicals were found, causing cancer and other illnesses. One of the many harmful chemicals found in these plastic bottles is Styrene which causes a cancer causing agent and also could possibly cause adverse reproductive effects. Investigators also found three different types phthalate, Diethyl phthalate, Dioctyl phthalate that

It is nearly impossible to comprehend that products and items that we as a society use everyday can create such a catastrophe with our bodies that cancer, autism, and even the reproductive system is affected by these monsters. Even though there are thousands of chemicals that can harm our society, BPA is looked at as one of the ugliest monsters out there today.

A large amount of BPA has been removed from water bottles as well as baby bottles.

This is because the chemical has one of the most common environmental chemical exposures to humans. Abbreviated “BPA”, bisphenol A exposure, has been linked with several mechanisms that are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease, this comprises of weight gain, insulin resistance, thyroid dysfunction, endothelial dysfunction, and oxidative stress (NHANES 11).Public health places emphasis that the health of populations should be considered by reducing the quantity of bottled water they consume. Data should be collected for the purposes of policy decision making and deciding the best ways the consumption of bottled water should be curtailed Considering that an endocrine-disrupting chemical, BPA has been shown to have estrogenic and thyroid hormone that disrupts the effects of experimental studies. This owes to the fact that there are significant relations between childhood obesity and the type of water such children who get infected by the disease consume. The venture hence becomes a serious concern because people, specifically Americans, have been unknowingly poisoning themselves and their children with the prior mentioned chemical. This has been championed by the use of BPA contained in bottled water. Notably, only reduces human consumption of this harmful chemical which is found 93% of the American adult

is a difficult chemical to escape -- it's in so many plastic products from water bottles and sippy cups to contact lenses and toys. Controversial studies linking BPA to health risks, particularly reproductive risks, prompted companies to go the "BPA-free" route. But new research from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Sciences says not so fast: BPS (Bisphenol S), a replacement for BPA that technically makes products BPA-free, is probably not safe either.

The NRDC found out that two brands of plastic water bottles were contaminated with phthalates (Jemmott). Phthalates are used to make plastic softer. This chemical prevents the body’s normal functions from happening. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) only oversees water from being bottled, but does require bottlers to regularly test for contaminates (Jemmott). The FDA considers bottled water a low-risk product, so plants may not be inspected each year (Jemmott). Also bottled water in plastic bottles can contain PBC which is found to cause cancer (Bartlett). Overall bottled water can contain chemicals that can severely harm you in the

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a monomer used to synthesize polycarbonates and epoxy resins for the manufacturing of products to which we are exposed in daily manners. BPA is considered a xenoestrogen because of its high affinity for estrogen receptors and related receptors, also, because it is known to have a disruptive effect on blastocyst implantation when ingested or injected in doses 10,000 times the effective dose of E2.

Research into the effects of BPA is ongoing, but many individual countries have restricted its use, particularly in packaging of foods and beverages intended for consumption by young children.

Everyone one at some point in their life has drank from a plastic bottle, whether it was a baby bottle, a plastic disposable water bottle, or just a water bottle you have used for exercise. If you were to show someone one of these thing they would know what it is, but what they might not know is that it can be harmful to them. A while back a lot water bottles used to be made with something called BPA, which has been proven to have many side effects on people when it get absorbed into from the plastic to your water. In this paper I will be informing you on BPA, what it is on how it gets into your water, what side effects it can have on you, and are water bottle safe for you now.

Plastic water bottles seem to have chemicals that may not be safe for the human body. For illustration, “as #1 bottles are reused...they can leach chemicals such as DEHA, a possible human carcinogen, and benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), a potential hormone disruptor” (Karlstrom and Dell’Amore 1). Water bottles, when used once proved okay, but when reused they can carry dangerous chemicals. However, some experts state that tap water, though cheaper, “[bottled water’s] likely no safer or cleaner” (Karlstrom and Dell’Amore).This shows, bottled water’s high price does not mean it will prove healthier for the human body. Healthwise, bottled and tap water each have their own advantages and