Kristie McNealy, MD

Last week, Canada announced that it was moving forward with drafting regulations to ban the importation, advertising and sale of polycarbonate baby bottles containing bisphenol A (BPA), as well as reducing the amount of BPA released into the environment.  This move will make Canada the first country in the world to regulate BPA.
At the same [...]

Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been in the news a lot over the past few years, as experts on both sides whether the chemical, which has been shown to mimic estrogen in animal studies, is harmful to humans. BPA is a chemical found in polycarbonate bottles as well as other types of food packaging and plastic [...]