{"id":5226,"date":"2016-12-19T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:02:36","slug":"baby-soothers-shown-to-contain-harmful-bpa-compounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/baby-soothers-shown-to-contain-harmful-bpa-compounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby soothers shown to contain harmful BPA compounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5227\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"wp-image-5227\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128326_web.jpg\" alt=\"A new study has found that teethers contain BPA and other potentially endocrine-disrupting compounds that can leach out at low levels. (Image by American Chemical Society)\" width=\"600\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128326_web.jpg 720w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128326_web-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new study has found soothers\u00a0contain BPA and other potentially endocrine-disrupting compounds that can leach out at low levels. <em>(Image by American Chemical Society)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Endocrine-disrupting compounds, such as BPA, parabens, and some antimicrobials, have been shown to negatively influence hormones and produce harmful developmental effects. As such, these compounds have been banned from most baby products, such as sippy cups and baby bottles. But a new study recently found BPA, as well as other parabel and antimicrobial compounds, in 59 various baby soothers available for purchase in the US. Research also showed these chemicals leach out from the teethers into water. While the levels of compounds amount to a dose under the European standards for temporary tolerable daily intake levels, researchers say these standards account for effects of a single chemical, not a combination of several chemicals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos, Madhavan Elangovan, and Kurunthachalam Kannan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kurunthachalam Kannan, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health\u00a0and Department of Environmental Health <span class=\"il\">Sciences<\/span>,\u00a0School of Public Health,\u00a0State University of New York, Albany, NY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/acs.est.6b04128\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Environmental Science and Technology<\/em> on December 7, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endocrine-disrupting compounds, such as BPA, parabens, and some antimicrobials, have been shown to negatively influence hormones and produce harmful developmental effects. As such, these compounds have been banned from most baby products, such as sippy cups and baby bottles. But a new study recently found BPA, as well as other parabel and antimicrobial compounds, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2786,2784,2785,1540],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-baby-soothers","tag-bpa","tag-endocrine-health","tag-infant-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/128326_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5228,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}