Canada’s decision to become the first country to ban baby bottles with bisphenol A was in flux in the days leading up to the unprecedented announcement–and was secured after the intervention of senior Conservative political officials, internal government records show.
The federal government made history in April 2008 when it announced plans to list the hormone-disrupting chemical as a toxic substance and to ban the use of polycarbonate baby bottles.
BPA is used as a building block in polycarbonate plastic.
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