Health

Mon Jul 18

New evidence for BPA and obesity? Not so fast!

Written by Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide

Authors: Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide

The headline image of the University of Melbourne’s Facebook link to its press release about recent research on Bisphenol A (BPA) is of a takeaway coffee cup. The kind that does not have any BPA in it at all ^[1]. The headline “Obesity Link to BPA”...

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