Environmental Health News discusses the FDA. Policymakers, advocates push for stronger science, regulation of the chemical BPA. “The mindless clinging to outdated science is detrimental to public health and to the development of good science”.
Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) was pregnant with her second child when she became concerned about the toxic chemicals that she and her kids — and nearly all of us — encounter every day.
It was 2009, and she had recently been elected to the New York State Legislature as it considered a bill prohibiting bisphenol-A (BPA) from infant and children’s products sold in the state. She voted yes on the bill, which passed in 2010.
Now she wants to see similar action on the national level.
“The FDA needs to be more transparent about what additives and chemicals are in our foods and products and how they could potentially impact us — just as we do for cigarettes,” Meng told EHN.