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From Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "BPA industry seeks to polish image"
Frustrated at media portrayals of bisphenol A as a dangerous chemical, food-packaging executives and lobbyists for the chemical makers met this week at an exclusive Washington, D.C., club where they hammered out a strategy, including showcasing a pregnant woman to talk about the chemical’s benefits.
The meeting was private, but the Journal Sentinel obtained a summary of the discussion. John Rost, chairman of the North American Metal Packaging Alliance, confirmed that the meeting took place. He said the summary was incomplete and did not accurately portray all the discussions.
"It was a five-hour meeting," he said.
But he did verify all the points in the summary.
A pregnant woman would be "the holy grail" to serve as a spokeswoman, the memo says. Attendees said they doubted they could find a scientist to serve as a spokesman for BPA.[...]
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I’ll bet dollars to donuts that Mary Maitlin Carville was paid handsomely to attend this meeting. I’ll also bet she was not the only GOP strategist in attendance.
Recommended. Thanks, Boo, for this most important info. My middle-age daughter has been on this from the get-go and threatened to destroy all plastic items in my kitchen. Now, after reading your article, maybe I’ll do it myself!
We need to return to glass containers, especially for soft drinks. My kids spent hours hunting bottles to return them for the deposit. It helped clean up roadsides, saved on increasing the mountains of landfill trash (contamination), gave the kids something productive to do, and taught them to think more about spending their hard-earned money, in addition to the glass having no cancer-causing chemicals.
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I’ve gone glass as much as possible. Read up on endocrine disruptors in plastic, and you will run to clean out the kitchen. Glass especially for baby bottles!
“how will it affect the union workers?”
that’s rich.
(and, shhh, don’t mention bpa is suspected in the decline of male fertility rates…use a pregnant woman as spokesperson…yeah, that’s the ticket…)