Our country is "innocent until proven guilty" which works great for the courts but maybe not so appropriate for potentially toxic chemicals and drugs. Industry would have us believe these things are safe because no one has showed that they aren't. Then when you really start to look at it, you realize no one has really tried.

I did my PhD in the lab whose results "can't be repeated" (vom Saal) and--it was the chemical industry "attempting" to replicate the experiment. Their published studies have huge logistical holes. Sure, other independent labs should try to replicate the studies. But try getting funding to do a study that has already been published.

Unfortunately it is very difficult to detect delayed and subtle effects in populations. There is probably a subset of our population that is vulnerable to hormone effects. In a typical study we won't see the effects because we don't have a good way to identify these susceptible individuals.

Do you want to take the chance that BPA is innocent because we haven't proven it guilty yet? Are you confident that you are not in that vulnerable subset of our population?

But the sad fact is that you can't eliminate your (or your baby's) exposure to BPA. Hundreds of tons are released into the environment every year during production. It is in our water and air. Eliminating your polycarbonate bottles & dishes is futile because unless the plastic is old, pitted & cracked, it is not leaching much BPA.