Sunoco Will Stop Selling Bisphenol A For Use In Children's Food Products

Sunoco Will Stop Selling Bisphenol A For Use In Children's Food Products
The oil and chemical giant is the first manufacturer to acknowledge health concerns. The FDA still has not
by Dan Shapely
3.13.2009

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Sunoco will stop selling Bisphenol A for use in food packaging that goes to children and babies.

Just a week after six more companies said they'd stop selling baby bottles and other products for young children if they will stop selling baby bottles and other products for babies that are made with Bisphenol A, one company that makes the controversial chemical pledged not to sell it for use in any food product for children.

Sunoco, in a letter to investors, has said it will stop selling Bisphenol A to customers who use it in packaging for children's foods, according to yet another groundbreaking report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where watchdog reporters Meg Kissinger and Susanne Rust have been exposing how harmful and suspect chemicals continue to be used widely, in the absence of effective government regulation.

The chemical industry as a whole is still standing behind Bisphenol A, and the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates its use, has to date relied on industry studies, rather than peer-reviewed independent science in affirming the chemical's supposed safety.

Canada has banned Bisphenol A in many products for babies and young children, and Suffolk County, N.Y. could become the first U.S. government to do so. The National Toxicology Program has raised concerns about Bisphenol A's potential to disrupt the normal development of fetuses and babies, and the Environmental Protection Agency has been criticized for failing to consider the cumulative effect of hormone-disrupting chemicals that Americans are routinely exposed to.