EU: No consumer health risk from bisphenol A exposure

EFSA’s comprehensive re-evaluation of bisphenol A (BPA) exposure and toxicity concludes that BPA poses no health risk to consumers of any age group (including unborn children) at current exposure levels. Exposure from the diet or from a combination of sources (diet, dust, cosmetics and thermal paper) is considerably under the safe level.
Although new data and refined methodologies have led EFSA’s experts to considerably reduce the safe level of BPA from 50 µg per kilogram of body weight per day to 4 µg, the highest estimates for dietary exposure and for exposure from a combination of sources are three to five times lower than the new limit (EFSA Press Release, 21 January 2015).
Click here for the full press release.
Click here for the Scientific Opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) in foodstuffs.
Click here for the lay summary of the Scientific Opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of bisphenol A (BPA) in foodstuffs.
Click here for more information about the online NVC E-Workshop Food Contact Materials Legislation.

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