I've written at length about why our current approach to licensing chemicals, which presumes "safe until proven otherwise," is so dumb and dangerous. Ubiquitous plastic chemical bisphenol A is a harmful endocrine disruptor and obesogen. After long investigation established this conclusively, substitute chemicals were created (bisphenol F and bisphenol S) and simply presumed to be safe, because their chemical structure was mildly different from that of bisphenol A. Well, guess what? Both of these replacements are just as harmful as bisphenol A, and maybe even worse. This new stud of South Korean children shows that exposure to bisphenol F and S is associated with weight gain and with significantly altered hormonal profiles associated with endocrine disruption. We need to presume "harmful until proven otherwise" if we're ever going to get out of this mess we've created through our short-sightedness.
@Babygravy9 @robbystarbuck Thanks for confirming what I suspected. A decade ago I had a feeling that their ‘substitutes’ for that original chemical weren’t going to be wonderful and wholesome.
@Babygravy9 Wait until you look into how they make corn syrup (hint HCl)
@Babygravy9 I tried explaining this to a guy in charge of Israeli pollution monitoring. He gave me an empty, dull look. "No evidence in humans"