All Sites Tucked neatly into the Bayer MaterialScience press kit that I picked up at last month’s MD&M West 2014 event in Anaheim, CA, was a two-page backgrounder on Bisphenol A (BPA). The document summarizes various government research studies that support the chemical’s safety in the human population. Bayer MaterialScience is a leading supplier of polycarbonate, so it’s hard to argue altruism here, but its claim that “the overwhelming volume of scientific evidence supports the use of BPA in our manufacturing process and in our products” is sound. read more

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