date:Mar 11, 2013
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Based on a small-scale trial involving 10 families, researchers from University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health and the Seattle Children's Research Institute found that even when families ate a steady diet of mostly fresh, organic food not stored in plastic containers containing BPA, their exposure levels to both BPA and phthalates, another toxic plastics chemical, were still remarkably high. In fact, compared to families eating a mainstream diet, those fed spe