A new study, conducted by researchers from Harvard University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has exposed that drinking water from plastic bottles prepared with the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) raises urinary levels of the chemical by nearly 70 percent.
BPA is an industrial chemical that makes plastics hard and transparent, reports Environmental News Network.
It is widely used in plastic drinking bottles, baby bottles and other consumer products, and also in resins that line cans of food and infant formula.
The study, conducted on 77 student Volunteers showed that the chemical disorder the hormonal system, potentially foremost to reproductive defects as well as brain damage, cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
BPA is an industrial chemical that makes plastics hard and transparent, reports Environmental News Network.
It is widely used in plastic drinking bottles, baby bottles and other consumer products, and also in resins that line cans of food and infant formula.
The study, conducted on 77 student Volunteers showed that the chemical disorder the hormonal system, potentially foremost to reproductive defects as well as brain damage, cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes.
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