Charity calls to ban cancer-causing chemicals used by women

• Breast Cancer UK calls for total ban on BPA chemical
• BPA is "contributing to rapid increase in breast cancer"
• Chemical commonly used in food and beverage packaging 

"URGENT" action is needed to reduce women's exposure to cancer-causing chemicals, a charity says. 
 
Breast Cancer UK says there is "compelling" evidence that Bisphenol A (BPA) could be contributing to the rapid increase in the number of women being diagnosed with the disease.
Every year in England there are nearly 42,000 new cases of breast cancer and incidence rates have increased by 90 per  cent since 1971, the charity said.

In a new report, it said that low dose exposure to the chemical, which mimics human hormones and is routinely used in a variety of consumer products including tin cans, plastic food packaging, water bottles and lunch boxes, has been linked to breast cancer and other diseases.

In Australia and elsewhere, BPA is commonly used in the lining of some food and beverage packaging. Small amounts of the chemical can migrate into food and beverages from containers and packaging.

Food Standards Australia and New Zealand have acknowledged that some studies have raised potential concerns that BPA may cause multiple health problems but that "the overwhelming weight of scientific opinion is that there is no health or safety issue at the levels people are exposed to".
Breast Cancer UK is calling for the hormone-disrupting chemical to be banned from all food and drinks packaging.

"The European Food Safety Authority... and the UK's Food Standards Agency claim that BPA is safe, based on their assertion that our exposure to BPA is allegedly low and that humans rapidly eliminate it from the body," the Breast Cancer UK report said.

"In reality, it remains unclear exactly how much BPA we as humans are exposed to on a daily basis. Tests reveal that our daily exposure could be as much as eight times more than the so-called 'safe' limit.

"In addition to evidence to suggest that BPA could be a causative factor in breast cancer, studies show that it may also be implicated in other health problems such as infertility, obesity, prostate cancer, brain tumours, diabetes, heart disease and neurological and behavioural disorders.

"Urgent action is needed to reduce human exposure to BPA."

Lynn Ladbrook, Breast Cancer UK campaigns manager said the government "can no longer sweep this sort of overwhelming evidence under the carpet."

"It must acknowledge that our routine exposure to chemicals, like BPA, is a key part of the cancer prevention puzzle, one that is currently missing from its cancer and public health strategies.

"We must redress this gap if we are to begin to help protect the health of future generations."

news.com.au 14 May 2013

The so called food brought to the masses by global corporations, is carcinogenic by design.

The industry heavyweights like, Coca-Cola Amatil, McDonald's, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), Hungry Jacks (Burger King in the United States), Wendy's, Donut King to name a few produce food for the cannon fodder, for the lower classes of society.

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of the United States, is seen as somewhat an 'authority' on additives to foodstuffs, but in reality works in conjunction with the corporations, to mask carcinogenic substances that are added to crops or genetically modified foods.

The FDA decided that potatoes that McDonald's uses, genetically modified to contain a repellant to keep a specific insect from desecrating the crop, did not warrant the information to be made public, as is was not a significant change to the potatoe.

After this information was made public, the genetically modified potatoe was not used by McDonald's.