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How did it get there?

Last month, the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group revealed startling findings about one in 10 cans of all food tested and one in three cans of infant formula: "A single serving contained enough BPA to expose a woman or infant to BPA levels more than 200 times the government's traditional safe level of exposure for industrial chemicals." Most governments, including Canada, set safe levels of exposure long before recent studies showed hormone-related changes in mice and rats.Does BPA poses a risk to our health?

Depends who you ask.I have read and reread many of the dozens of conflicting scientific studies looking for sound research, bias and inconsistencies.

As a parent and former science journalist, I find it an incredible challenge to determine if low-level exposure to this chemical is harming my daughters' reproductive health.It's frustrating to think there is a debate around a chemical that has already found its way into hundreds of everyday products, many that contain our food and water.

Most of us expect the government w...

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