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Sure.

So you should be able to link a study demonstrating these reproductive problems. IE: X people have less exposure to BPA, Y people have more exposure to BPA, and Y people have said problems.

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Traditionally, that's the kind of study that's done. For example, X people are non-smokers, Y people are smokers. Y people have Z% more cancer than X people.

A quickie look through the papers you copy/pasted from are not of this traditional style of research. The links are rather... weak.




The reason you will struggle to find data like that is that there is no "non-smoker" group. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4674187/

BPA is in every person, and fetal and childhood exposure is the most critical period, and cancers don't develop until later in life.


> Commercial production of BPA began in the United States in 1957 and then in Europe a year later

A quote from the article you posted. This suggests that older people born before 1957 should have different properties compared to people born after that year, especially if you are alleging that babies are especially sensitive to this plastic.

I know my Grandma is older than 1957. There's probably plenty of people who can participate in such a study of the anti-BPA crowd cared.


You'll find that's consistent with the data, but also that cancer diagnosis techniques have improved, confounding results.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362167164/figure/fi...


> BPA is in every person

I severely doubt that. Different people have different habits. I go to the grocery store. I can look at my neighbors food choices and see that some people buy cans, other people buy frozen. Any hypothetical BPA-issue will affect the canned people more, and the frozen-buyers less.




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