NOT TRUE!! Don't drag The Great White North into this! This is the kind of fear mongering that gives enviromentalists a bad name. Canada has banned BPA in baby bottles and a few items associated with contact with infants. If you are pregnant or have very young children it would probably be best to avoid most plastics just to be safe, but otherswise BPA is extremely safe.
12 hours for elimination from the system is pretty safe. If you are concerned you should be avoiding plastics in general, most of the compunds in plastics have not been studied long-term.
sorry, i should have said, "canada has already decalred it toxic"
http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2010/2010-10-13/html/sor-dors194-eng.html
however, this is hardly fear mongering. It is the reality of the situation, cancer and endrine disruption.
What Does the Research Say About BPA?
Of 115 published animal studies, 81 percent found significant effects from even low-level exposure to BPA.
This toxic chemical, an endocrine disrupter, first caught researchers' attention after normal mice began to display uncommon genetic abnormalities. The defects were linked to plastic cages and water bottles that had been cleaned with a harsh detergent, causing BPA to leach out of the plastic.
After determining how much BPA the mice had been exposed to, the researchers realized even an extremely small dose of 20 parts per billion daily, for just five to seven days, was enough to produce effects.
Some of the greatest concern surrounds early-life exposure to BPA, which can lead to chromosomal errors in the developing fetus, triggering spontaneous miscarriages and genetic damage. And being exposed to just 0.23 parts per billion of BPA is enough to disrupt the effect of estrogen in a baby's developing brain.
For this reason, women of childbearing age and those who are pregnant should be especially diligent at avoiding BPA, but practically no one is immune. One recent study found the chemical can lead to heart disease, diabetes and liver problems in adults, and previous research has linked BPA to:
-Structural damage to your brain
-Hyperactivity, increased aggressiveness, and impaired learning
-Increased fat formation and risk of obesity
-Altered immune function
-Early puberty, stimulation of mammary gland development, disrupted reproductive cycles, and ovarian dysfunction
-Changes in gender-specific behavior, and abnormal sexual behavior
-Stimulation of prostate cancer cells
-Increased prostate size, and decreased sperm production
-Diabetes
-Heart disease
-Liver damage
source:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/02/canada-declares-bpa-toxic-as-first-step-in-bpa-regulation.aspx