After the politically-motivated listing of the plastic hardener Bisphenol-A (BPA) was at last squeezed onto California s nefarious Proposition 65 list of allegedly toxic chemicals, a local Sacramento judge kicked it off, correctly stating that the chemical s listing flew in the face of scientific and regulatory evidence. A division of California s environmental agency finally figured out a way to list BPA, a poster-child for toxic chemicals and endocrine disrupters of the radical environmental activists. This was accomplished by using a bureaucratic subterfuge to get around the scientific committee which had repeatedly rejected listing it. But, not so fast, said Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei, who (unlike the Prop 65 committee members, apparently) actually reviewed the scientific evidence, including that of our own Federal regulators, the FDA. He ordered the chemical immediately de-listed.
Unfortunately, that will probably not be the end of the story in California, given the dogged determination of the anti-chemical groups to rid our society of BPA, no matter its usefulness and safety. Groups such as NRDC will keep on fighting this battle until ¦who knows? Not too long ago, they petitioned the FDA to regulate BPA out of existence, and the FDA told them to shut up and go away. Did they listen? Well, read this post again if you re not sure.
