For two decades, biology professor Frederick vom Saal has been trying to remove endocrine disruptors from daily use. These chemicals interfere with your hormone system and can cause obesity, infertility and cancer. He has published dozens of scientific papers outlining the harmful effects of bisphenol-A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor found in plastics.
Having completed his research, vom Saal and is now trying to convince U.S. federal authorities to ban BPA. It is already restricted or prohibited in eleven U.S. states, Canada, China and the European Union.
According to the Columbia Missourian:
“With endocrine disruptors, the problem is that decision-makers in chemical risk assessment were trained in toxicology before the concept of endocrine disruption was coined 20 years ago, vom Saal says. He compares this to a patient with an endocrine problem seeing a foot doctor instead of an endocrinologist.”