Nick Kristof is back with another column on the dangers of chemicals found in everyday materials, including canned foods, thermal receipts, cosmetics, plastics and food packaging. In particular, Kristof notes the Endocrine Society’s recent censure of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to ban BPA in food packaging.
Kristof leaves us with a salient and disturbing question to consider: “Shouldn’t our government be as vigilant about threats in our grocery stores as in the mountains of Afghanistan?”
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