I appreciate this site (linked below) and its comments on BPA, as it sort of sums up what I have read about bisphenol A over the last 6 years.  When we find something so entrenched in daily life as plastic might not be “good for us” it takes a huge amount of effort to effect small changes to eliminate it. This means change on the consumer side (comfort and convenience) which is hard to deny, and voluntary change on the side of the producers (profit and greed) which is very unlikely to happen.

http://cen.acs.org/articles/89/i23/Exposure-Routes-Confound-BPA-Debate.html

Some specific articles are here:

1) Bisphenol A  2) Debating BPA’s toxicity 3) BPA is indespensible for making plastic 4) Exposure Routes Confound BPA Debate

I debate daily in my own mind as to what is the greater risk to my health, the negative effects of the “stress” worrying about exposure to PBA. or the biological effect of the “toxin” and whether the effort exerted for “avoidance” is appropriate to the relative daily “dose” I receive, especially when taken into consideration with all other xenoestrogens to which I am exposed.

BPA manufacturers suggest that, given the level of exposure to phytoestrogens in the daily diet (aside here—-we all know that the vegetables which have phytoestrogens are NOT a part of most individuals daily diet (LOL)), the amounts of BPA that leach from polycarbonate plastics and ­epoxy resins may not really matter and in addition BPA is not the only chemical we encounter daily with estrogenic effects, nor does BPA have the highest estrogenic effect of these other chemicals, but one thing it is, is plentiful. It makes sense, because of the ease of contact, the abundance of the compound, the continuousness of our contact and the millions of pounds of BPA produced each year, that we give some small consideration to “limiting” our BPA exposure.

At some point (as happened for smokes, alcohol and drugs, lack of exercise, poor diet, etc etc) more will be known and more prudent measures applied.