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The ‘safer' plastics designed to replace BPA may be just as bad for you
- hammock 10y agoOf course they are. BHPF, BPS... it's easy to theoretically derive how harmful these chemicals probably are, acting with similar biological mechanisms as BPA. The only difference is there are no published studies on the human safety of these chemicals. So while a chemical engineer could predict with likely great accuracy the harmfulness, there is technically no empirical evidence. The same thing is happening in fluorocarbon industry. There are one or two chemicals that have studies done (PFOA, PFOS). All bad news for humans and the environment. So many other fluorocarbons are offered as alternatives, ignoring the fact that they probably do the same damage.