A press release from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) declares that their own laboratory tests "identified [BPA] in nine of ten cord blood samples from babies of African-American, Asian, and Hispanic descent."
"I'd like to point out the cleverness of this whole thing," says ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross. "Not only do they test umbilical chords, but they also divide the results along racial and ethnic lines as if people didn't already want a jihad against corporate chemical producers."
"This is just another example of EWG scaring people about chemicals," says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. "When are they going to figure out that you can find trace amounts of anything you look for in blood these days? The mere presence of something in blood doesn't make it harmful. Even the CDC acknowledges this fact in their biannual biomonitoring report."
For more information, see ACSH's publication on biomonitoring.
