The 'No More BPA' campaign, backed by the NCT, Unison, the Women's Environmental Network, the Cancer Prevention and Education Society and CHEM Trust, wants the Government to take action to end the use of the controversial chemical in baby bottles.
Scientists from Stirling, London, Plymouth, Reading and Ulster universities have written to health secretary Andy Burnham to ask that BPA be banned from products marketed for babies and children.
They say studies carried out in the United States and Canada over the past decade have found that very young children who are exposed to BPA have an increased risk of breast cancer and other chronic conditions, as they are less able to eliminate the chemical from their body than adults.
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