Harmful chemical substances in your food

Dutch television programme Radar reports that Wemos – an organisation championing the right to health – and TNO tested a number of popular food products for the level of Bisphenol A (BPA) they contained. They found BPA in 4 out of 5 of the tested products. None of these products individually exceeds the limits set by EFSA of 4 micrograms kilogram of body weight per day, but it is unclear how much the daily intake of endocrine disruptors is in total. European policy is a long time coming. Recently the European Commission was rebuked by the European Court of Justice and urged to make haste with the scientific criteria for endocrine disrupting substances (Radar, 8 February 2016).
Click here for the full news item, and to watch the fragment about Bisphenol A (in Dutch).
Click here for the Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2015 in the case of Sweden against the Commission concerning endocrine disruptors.
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