After NTP Finds Risks, EPA Reconsiders Study On Bisphenol's Hazards

EPA is reconsidering whether agency staff will perform a risk assessment of the controversial plastic ingredient bisphenol-A (BPA), following last week's finding by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) that the chemical poses "some risk" to children. Agency reconsideration of its BPA assessment could undermine efforts by public health advocates who are hoping the NTP assessment could help them push EPA to develop an assessment that would have greater regulatory impact than the NTP study, though activists are citing the NTP...