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Like the better-known chemical BPA, BPS is an endocrine disruptor linked to breast cancer and reproductive toxicity.
minus-squareOwlHamster@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 day agoLooked it up, could only find bans of BPA, which has since been replaced with BPS. Can you confirm BPS is actually banned?
minus-squarecyberiltis@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agohttps://www.packaginglaw.com/news/eu-bans-bpa-and-other-bisphenols-food-contact-materials But you right, I mixed up BPA/BPS buz in the link its mentioned that EU also banned BPS „The revised regulation adopted in December applies the restrictions to BPS and other hazardous bisphenols and bisphenol derivatives […]“
Looked it up, could only find bans of BPA, which has since been replaced with BPS. Can you confirm BPS is actually banned?
https://www.packaginglaw.com/news/eu-bans-bpa-and-other-bisphenols-food-contact-materials
But you right, I mixed up BPA/BPS buz in the link its mentioned that EU also banned BPS
„The revised regulation adopted in December applies the restrictions to BPS and other hazardous bisphenols and bisphenol derivatives […]“