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You can’t taste it or smell it, but if you ate canned soup for lunch, drank a canned soda, or sipped from a refillable polycarbonate bottle—the hard, shiny plastic often labeled as #7—a chemical called bisphenol A may have entered your body.
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© 2009 Elizabeth Grossman
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Grossman, E. (2009). The Polycarbonate Problem. In: Chasing Molecules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-157-3_4
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