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Plastics: Groups Say Bottles, Cling Wrap Pose Risk
Plastic baby bottles and plastic food wrap could be passing potentially harmful ingredients into foods that children eat, a dozen consumer advocacy groups claim.
Citing research showing chemicals from plastics can leach into foods, the groups petitioned the Food and Drug Admin. to reduce children's exposure to "all ingredients in plastic food containers that could get into food or beverages" they consume.
Two chemicals worry the groups: bisphenol-A and DEHA, which is used to make cling wraps flexible. Bisphenol-A can leach into beverages in plastic baby bottles, the groups say. The FDA says it has not found leaching of bisphenol-A, and DEHA has only been found in "levels that are still well below what would be considered safe" (Anita Manning, USA Today, May 14).
Susan Moore, spokeswoman for the American Plastics Council said there is no evidence that chemicals are leaching into food at dangerous levels. Moore: "There is a weight of research, a great deal of research, that has been done over the past 40 years. ... We consider this one in a very long litany of scare tactics" (Maggie Fox, Reuters, May 13).