Well, They Said It Was Safe ...

In approving the use of a controversial chemical, the Food and Drug Administration relied on industry-funded studies that showed Bisphenol A was safe, to the exclusion of independent studies that raised concerns.

More damning, the agency charged with protecting Americans from unsafe chemicals in food and drugs relied on just two industry studies rather than hundreds of government and university studies. And one of those studies was never peer-reviewed and published in the scientific literature, and the other has been widely criticized.

That is the early evidence in a congressional inquiry into the FDA's "science for sale" approval of Bisphenol A, an ingredient in some plastics that has been linked to reproductive problems and hormonal disruption in laboratory animal studies. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel had the report.

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