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Bisphenol A is an ingredient in some plastic bottles--the ones with the number seven in the recycling symbol, NBC's Robert Bazell notified us--that can leach from the plastic and act as a synthetic version of the estrogen hormone. Since babies drink milk from such plastic bottles, the National Institutes of Health have found "some concern" that the synthetic estrogen may cause infantile brain damage, stunting growth and causing hyperactivity, and perhaps leading to an increased risk for breast cancer or prostate cancer later in life. ABC led with those worries: Canada banned such baby bottles; Wal-Mart announced a phaseout; and Nalgene, the sports drink company, will change its plastic, even though, as Ned Potter pointed out, there are no NIH concerns about harm to adults.
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