Health authorities will come under increasing pressure to ban baby bottles made with a certain chemical after evidence showed they can be harmful and are being withdrawn elsewhere in the world….
The Daily Telegraph: Plastic bottles can make babies sick
… In Australia, Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said yesterday it was the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s responsibility to raise safety issues regarding the plastic. In turn, the TGA said it was an issue for the federal health department, which declared it an issue for Food Standards Australia New Zealand, which in turn confirmed it had no regulatory authority whatsoever over baby bottles and had never commissioned its own study on the BPA issue. Food Standards said the group was monitoring the overseas BPA debate and up-to-date science found there was a “maximum daily safe limit”. Queensland grandmother and anti-BPA in bottles campaigner Nadia Duensing warned that as other countries banned baby bottles containing BPA, Australia could become the “dumping ground” for companies no longer able to sell their BPA products elsewhere. Some of the biggest-selling baby bottle brands in Australia still sell bottles with BPA in them, including Avent, owned by Philips. A Philips spokeswoman said yesterday that the company was acting responsibly. …
Editorial comment:
Yet another field in which Australia lags far behind the rest of the western world and it is simply not good enough.
EDCs are known to be causative factors in the ongoing increase in conditions underlying intersex. The lawmakers and the medical profession continue to do nothing positive to reduce causative factors, and when more and more intersex people are born we continue to be punished by the law and medicine simply for being intersex.
Persecuting the victim is an old tactic in cover ups.
