The UK’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG) released a scientific impact paper recommending pregnant women reduce use of food and beverages in cans and plastic packaging to minimize exposure to bisphenol A (BPA).
The paper explains that while current risk assessments for endocrine disruptors like BPA suggest current levels of human exposure are low enough not to pose a risk, the risk assessments are performed for individual chemicals. Scientists worry that measurement standards fail to account for potential harm resulting from materials containing several distinct endocrine-disrupting chemicals at low enough levels that each stays within safe levels.