As a parent, I’m glad the Wisconsin legislature is doing something about Bisphenol A or BPA in baby bottles. I think it’s a good first step to removing the harmful chemical from all our food products, but it seems like a no brainer to remove it from products that are used by the most vulnerable of us.
Bisphenol A would be banned from baby bottles and sipping cups for children age 3 and younger under a bill the Senate unanimously passed Tuesday.
BPA is a chemical used to make hard, clear plastic used in the lining of most food and beverage cans. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this month said it had concerns about the substance’s effect on the brains, behavior and prostate glands of fetuses, infants and young children.
The Assembly Consumer Protection Committee passed an identical ban Tuesday, making the bill ready for a vote in that house.
Both houses are controlled by Democrats.
Wisconsin would join Canada, Minnesota, Connecticut, Chicago and three counties in New York in banning BPA in baby bottles. The Washington state House passed a ban Monday and that state’s Senate is expected to do the same. – jsonline.com
Busy week.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and son Carter.
Once again the nanny state strikes. BPA been around for 50 + years and not one incidence of a problem until a couple studies funded by the same morons that went after silicone breast implants and made billions. Now we are supposed to run scared and let the government get involved with banning another harmless product. When will the madness end? Not until every useless trial lawyer disappears from the landscape. Along with them should go all the scare mongers that buy into this crap. I know a couple nice swamps in N MN that could use some fill so let me know when ya wanna start.
Yeah… Well, you can knock yourself out and continue to use BPA bottles for your children. That will totally show you’re not going to take the government controlling your life! I’ve also got some asbestos ceiling tiles on hand if you’re interested in giving the middle finger to the “nanny state”.
I say, good for the nannies. Thank God they have protected our kids by mandating bicycle helmets, and car booster seats till they are 30. They got rid of all those evil pre-1985 books that were killing so many kids…. as well as pool toys and rubber duckies. They have protected us from the evils of garage sales offering deadly merchandise like foam pellet filled bean bag chairs, children clothes with zippers that maim and cereal box toys.
I am all for living in the new Nerf world (not those horrible nerf projectiles though). If we can only save a single child from pain, then a ban on anything is fair game in my book.
We should get right to work on banning cigarettes, alcohol, foods with trans fats, foods with excessive sugar, cars that go over 55mph, school buses without seat belts, roller blades, skate boards, skiing without helmets and football padding. All of those things exceed the danger posed by BPA. Those nannies have a lot of work ahead of them before I can feel truly safe.
I’ll assume that there is no disagreement… I mean, if we need to ban dangerous things, then shouldn’t we do so?
Mack & The Family Guy:
Both of you should know the real perils involved here. The “symptoms of mild poisoning include headache, dizziness, confusion, anxiety, and vomiting. Larger doses can lead to difficulty breathing, increased blood pressure and heart rate, and kidney failure. Reactions can include coma, convulsions, and death from respiratory arrest. There are several treatment options, but the main thing is to limit the absorption of the chemicals.
Oops, sorry guys, I got the wrong product.
Dan, these are the results if you eat apple seeds. We better ban the sale of and eating of apples. We certainly wouldn’t want to poison our children!
Funny, I got all those symptoms watching Barack Obama give the State of the Union speech.
Gotta run. I need to throw away all the apples in the house. I could never sleep knowing we had weapons of mass destruction in the fridge.
So that’s two people who are in the market for asbestos ceiling tiles. Gotcha. If you guys want to use bottles that have BPA in them, rock on. I’m sure you can find some.
Well Dan, since you are of the mindset that a ban is in order to save lives and prevent harm, then I’d like you to also address my suggestions.
Should we ban Cigarettes? Cigars? Pipe Tobacco?
Should we ban Beer? Wine? Liquor?
How about Trans Fats? Excessive Sugars? High Fructose Corn Syrup?
What about governing cars so that they can not exceed 55mph?
Kids are severely injured quite frequently by using Skateboards. Roller Blades. Playing Tackle Football in High School
If you are willing to ban a product based upon soft scientific evidence, then how can you not also support banning all of the things I have mentioned. They all maim and kill far more people than BPA does (if it has harmed anyone at all… there is no proof that it has).
I’d love to see what you think. Or will you simply offer me the asbestos cop out again?
Yes, we should ban tobacco and beer in baby bottles too!! Count me in with the “anti-baby-booze-bottle” camp!
Seriously though, the analogy about the car and everything is a poor one. Cars and skateboards and baby bottles by themselves aren’t dangerous. Defective accelerators and wheels that fall off and dangerous chemicals leak into baby formula is what is dangerous.
Cars don’t kill people and baby bottles don’t cause defective reproductive organs. Defective parts and dangerous chemicals do. I’m happy someone is out there looking out for me and my family. I wish I had known about BPA with my first child was using a bottles.
Use whatever snarky term you want, it doesn’t change the fact that BPA shouldn’t be in baby bottles.
Ok, so what about tobacco and alcohol? They kill lots of people. They also cause legitimately verifiable birth defects. Sugar causes verifiable obesity and diabetes. Fat clogs arteries… verified by multiple reputable studies. If it’s all about saving the children, then why don’t you come out in full support of sweeping legislation that will actually help save real children, and not imaginary ones?
There are no reputable studies on BPA. The margin of error cited in the human correlation studies range from 250%-350%. Can you say Alar? Yes, this is the same sloppy science that resulted in the loss of billions of dollars and the besmirching of a very effective product that, in the end, turned out to be harmless. Liberals often jump on the low hanging fruit of shady studies and populist solutions. That’s how we got to the stage we are at in global warming. I can prove that cigarette smoke, and alcohol are far greater dangers than BPA… by about 100 fold or more. Why would you ignore that, and jump on an issue for which even the FDA admits there is no proof?
Seriously though…. explain that?
The result of this witch hunt will be the same as the Alar debacle. Loss of a huge amount of money, increased costs to consumers, a massive waste of resources, and little, if no, actual positive result…. other than liberals feeling good about themselves.
Shorter conservative message: put BPA in my babys bottle and lead in their toys!!!!!!
Ok, for the non knee-jerk types out there, this is a very well written piece describing the real statistics on BPA, it’s benefits, and some of the typical unintended consequences that will likely increase danger to the public once the nannies are done with the issue. Obviously the State Democrat Party has made up it’s mind, science be damned. The rest of us don’t have to be donkeys though.
Read about it here: http://www.cascadepolicy.org/pdf/FullreportBPA-012710a.pdf