Bisphenol A EFSA exacerbates limit

01/28/2015

The EU Food Safety Authority EFSA has reduced the value of bisphenol-A (BPA), which includes cash-on-wall and reusable plastic packaging, from 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day to 4. The value is still provisional, as long as the results of a long-term study are still outstanding, EFSA said.

Although the Authority has downgraded the value, in its reassessment of exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and its toxicity, it concludes that current consumer exposure poses no health risk to BPA for any age group (including unborn children, toddlers and adolescents)..

Exposure via nutrition or a combination of different sources (diet, dust, cosmetics and thermal paper) is well below the safe upper limit (the so-called "upper limit") „tolerable daily intake“, short: TDI). The substance is harmful for liver and kidney. However, the concentration would then have to be more than a hundredfold above the new upper limit. (Pm)