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Financial Investors Ask FDA to Reassess BPA’s Safety to Save Their Bottom Lines

BPAYou know you are in trouble when financial investors are the ones asking for independent safety reviews, but that’s exactly what is happening when it comes to BPA and the FDA.  It appears investors do have aconscious beyond making profits, and they are concerned about our health.  Financial companies have children too, right? 

According to Green Century Funds:

Washington, DC – A coalition of investors and other groups representing over $26 billion in assets yesterday sent a letter to Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Agency (FDA), applauding her recent decision to reassess the safety of bisphenol A (BPA), a controversial chemical used in can linings and hard plastics.

BPA is known to leach from can linings into food and beverages, and has been found in the urine of over 90% of Americans tested by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  Despite evidence linking the chemical to cancer, diabetes, developmental damage, and heart disease in animals, the FDA has maintained its assessment to date that BPA is “safe.”

“As investors, we’re concerned that the use of BPA, particularly in food and beverage packaging, may threaten shareholder value. Companies may face reputational, competitive, or market exclusion risks from using BPA. We are thrilled that the FDA is reconsidering its assessment,” stated Emily Stone of Green Century Capital Management (“Green Century”), the investment advisory firm that organized the letter.

Of course, they bottom line is the concern over threatening “shareholder value”, which goes to show consumers do have power. All of the negativity publicity surrounding BPA has companies concerned, and the power of consumers, especially parents, to avoid BPA products has affected bottom lines; however, the BPA industry is fighting back.  Green Century Funds continues:

Notes released from a recent “Joint BPA Trade Association” meeting demonstrate industry’s desire to continue playing a role in preventing BPA regulation. According to the notes, participants discussed strategy to “protect industries that use BPA [and] prolong the life of BPA,” including the use of fear tactics and identifying a “holy grail” spokesperson–a pregnant woman—to defend BPA.

Image: Environmental Working Group

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