In an article published on August 8, 2017 by news provider Environmental Health News, Peter Myers, founder and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, reports on a recent scientific study presenting a new catalytic approach to remove bisphenol A (BPA, CAS 80-05-7) from water (FPF reported). Myers highlights two additional sections of the paper that review the environmental occurrence and the evidence on low-dose toxicity of BPA. Based on the first part, Terry Collins, lead author of the paper, considers it to be plausible that “no living multi-cellular organism on this planet is without BPA contamination,” Myers informs. The second section presents evidence of non-monotonic dose-response curves for exposure to BPA (i.e. no effects at high doses, but adverse effects at low doses). Such low-dose effects of BPA and other endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are likely to be overlooked by standard regulatory testing, Myers explains. “The two reviews make the case that this is a global problem, probably not just for individual organisms affected but also, by implication, for ecosystem function,” Myers concludes.
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Pete Myers (August 8, 2017). “Science: Pay attention to two other messages in the breakthrough BPA water treatment paper.” Environmental Health News
Reference
Onundi, Y. et al. (2017). “A multidisciplinary investigation of the technical and environmental performances of TAML/peroxide elimination of bisphenol A compounds from water: Destruction, oligomerisation, mechanism, end product toxicity, and applications.” Green Chemistry (published August 2, 2017).
