Is BPA safe? Why leading scientists say we shouldn’t trust the FDA

Despite it being the authority on food and drugs, the FDA doesn't get them all right (see, for example, its half-hearted response to antibiotic resistance). But in response to a study released last month showing that BPA, in contrast to all you've heard about it, is actually safe, a dozen leading scientists say that the FDA isn't just wrong — it's "border[ing] on scientific misconduct." Mother Jones reports on the behind-the-scenes scandal:


On a conference call the previous summer, officials from the FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had informed these researchers that the lab where the study was housed was contaminated. As a result, all of the animals—including the supposedly unexposed control group—had been exposed to BPA. The FDA made the case that this didn't affect the outcome, but their academic counterparts believed it cast serious doubt on the study's findings. "It's basic science," says Gail S. Prins, a professor of physiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who was on the call. "If your controls are contaminated, you've got a failed experiment and the data should be discarded. I'm baffled that any journal would even publish this."
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