What Is BPA?

July 01, 2020

Event: The European Union believes that bottles containing bisphenol A can be precipitated into food and beverages when heated. It may disturb the metabolic process of the human body, affect infant development, immunity, and even cause cancer. From March 1st onwards, baby bottles containing the chemical substance bisphenol A (BPA) will be banned, and any bisphenol A plastic bottles will be banned from importing to member countries since June. However, there are still plastic milk bottles based on PC materials in the Beijing market, while PC milk bottles contain more bisphenol A. The merchants stated that they have not received relevant notice from the national government department and will not be removed from the market.

Weapons: To identify whether plastic products contain bisphenol A, consumers can identify the bottom of the plastic bottles through the triangular recycling mark, most of the bottom of the bottle has the mark.

According to the executive vice president and secretary-general of the International Food Packaging Association, each plastic has a code name, and the labels 1, 2, 4 and 5 are relatively safe and practical. If there is a “7” or “58” in the middle of the triangle and PC is written below, the product may contain bisphenol A. "7" stands for PC and all other plastics, but not all 7s. Some mixed materials are also listed here. According to the “Signs of Plastic Products” newly implemented by the State Administration of Quality Supervision and the National Standards Committee on October 1, 2008, there are one-to-one correspondences between the 140 plastic names and codes, and the new code for PC materials is “58. ".

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