Canada To Host Meeting On BPA

Ottawa - In October 2010, Canada will be the host on one of the most important meetings to to with BPA ever held, this is no coincidence seeing Canada was the first country to ban BPA in baby bottles. The meeting will also discuss BPA being used in food packaging.

A World Health Organisation meeting on the role of bisphenol A (BPA) — a hormone disrupter that can cause the early onset of puberty, reproductive damage and lead to the development of prostate and breast cancer — will take place in Ottawa in October 2010.

In what he called a "precautionary and prudent" move, then health minister Tony Clement in October 2008 added the chemical to Health Canada's toxic substance list, and banned its use in baby bottles. BPA, a building block in polycarbonate plastic, is also found in some sports bottles and the lining of metal-based food cans.

At that time, Clement also announced a three-year, $1.7 million research fund to study the effects of BPA.

Tuesday's statement said these findings will be submitted to experts as part of the review.