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Biomonitoring Studies Should Be Used By Regulatory Agencies To Assess Human Exposure Levels And Safety Of Bisphenol A, Laura Vandenberg, Ibrahim Chahoud, Vasantha Padmanabhan, Francisco Paumgartten, Gilbert Schoenfelder
Biomonitoring Studies Should Be Used By Regulatory Agencies To Assess Human Exposure Levels And Safety Of Bisphenol A, Laura Vandenberg, Ibrahim Chahoud, Vasantha Padmanabhan, Francisco Paumgartten, Gilbert Schoenfelder
Laura Vandenberg
BACKGROUND: Within the past 3 years, four major evaluations of bisphenol A (BPA) safety have been undertaken. However, these assessments have arrived at quite different conclusions regarding the safety of BPA at current human exposure levels. OBJECTIVES: We compared the reasons provided by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) BPA risk assessment panel for their conclusion that human exposures are negligible with the conclusions reached by the other panels, with all panels having the same body of literature at their disposal. DISCUSSION: The EFSA panel dismissed > or = 80 biomonitoring studies that documented significant levels of BPA exposure in humans, …