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"High BPA levels linked to male sexual problems
"Study in China is likely to bring further scrutiny of the common
chemical"
By Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Exposure to high levels of a controversial chemical found in thousands
of everyday plastic products appears to cause erectile dysfunction and
other sexual problems in men, according to a new study published
Wednesday.
The study, funded by the federal government and published in the
journal Human Reproduction, is the first to examine the impact of
bisphenol A, or BPA, on the reproductive systems of human males.
Previous studies have involved mice or rats.
The research comes as government agencies debate the safety of BPA, a
compound that is found in thousands of consumer products ranging from
dental sealants to canned food linings and that is so ubiquitous it
has been detected in the urine of 93 percent of the U.S. population.
Researchers focused on 634 male workers at four factories in China who
were exposed to elevated levels of BPA. They followed the men over
five years and compared their sexual health with that of male workers
in other Chinese factories where BPA was not present.
The men handling BPA were four times as likely to suffer from erectile
dysfunction and seven times as likely to have difficulty with
ejaculation, said De-Kun Li, a scientist at the Kaiser Foundation
Research Institute, which conducted the study with funds from the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
BPA, which was developed in the 1930s as a synthetic version of
estrogen, appears to throw off the hormonal balance in the human body,
Li said.
The workers studied did not have to spend years in the factory to
develop problems -- sexual dysfunction began in new workers after just
months on the job, Li said.
The workers had levels of exposure to BPA that were 50 times what an
average U.S. man faces. But the findings raise questions about whether
exposure at lesser levels can affect sexual function, Li said. "This
was a highly exposed group, and we see the effect," he said. "Now, we
have to worry about lower-level exposure."
Li said the study is significant because chemical manufacturers and
other defenders of BPA have long complained that research raising
questions about its health effects was conducted on laboratory
animals.
"Critics dismissed all the animal studies, saying, 'Show us the human
studies,' " Li said. "Now we have a human study, and this can't just
be dismissed."
Since BPA is most readily absorbed through food and drink containers,
health advocates have been particularly focused on how the Food and
Drug Administration is regulating the chemical. The agency has
maintained that BPA is safe. But a growing body of research over the
past decade has linked BPA to a range of health effects in laboratory
animals, including infertility, weight gain, behavioral changes, early-
onset puberty, cancer and diabetes.
Steven G. Hentges of the American Chemistry Council, which represents
the chemical industry, said the new study has little meaning for
consumers. "Although this study presents interesting information, it
has little relevance to average consumers who are exposed to trace
levels of BPA," he said.
Still, concern about the chemical among consumers has created pressure
in the marketplace. Manufacturers have pledged to take BPA out of baby
bottles and water bottles. A handful of jurisdictions around the
country have banned BPA from baby products, and similar measures are
pending in state legislatures.
Last year, the FDA's scientific advisory board criticized the agency
for ignoring more than 100 academic and government studies that linked
BPA with health effects. The Obama administration has pledged a "fresh
look" at the issue, and the FDA is expected to complete that review by
the end of this month.
Meanwhile, the federal government announced last month that it is
giving $30 million to researchers across the country over the next two
years in an aggressive push to advance knowledge about BPA and end the
debate about its safety.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111017411.html
OK, Ol' Dead Dick, if you can not ejaculate, then masturbate!!!!
Masturbate to your heart's contend!!!!
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Hey psycho Xangdi, just because abianchen exposed your racist act when
you pretended as a black guy using ID "Leroy B Jones" to harass black
people in November 2007 so you wanted revenge against abianchen for
the rest of your life? Get over it! Anyway, don't you think that's
hilarious when you got exposed, one netter said you got caught pants
down! Because of that, you abandoned your infamous ID "Chairman Mao
Says". That's also hilarious. Hehe!
Abianchen, a Filipino whore Meichi? No kidding! Hey, anyone believes
you and Rusty Old Fool's lies? Haha!
Oops, psycho Xangdi is going to repost his stolen Filipino girl's
photo to "prove" (frame actually) abianchen is "Filipino whore Meichi"
for revenge. Abianchen has become the most important person in his
life. Psycho Xangdi even calls himself “Virus for Dabian”. Can you
believe it?!
Psycho Xangdi, 你不會中文, 对中國又一無所知, 所以只能騷擾網友, 真是個可憐蟲!
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Psycho Xangdi (Dabian eater), yes, I have been to Shanxi province to
visit 平遥, one of UNESCO world heritage sites in China. Of course, you
don’t know where is 平遥 and what is平遥 because you have never heard of
it and you can not read Chinese either. Haha!
Anyway, psycho Xangdi, didn’t you say (lie actually) that you live in
Taipei and graduated from Chinese Culture University, Taipei so how
come you don’t know 平遥? Gee, Psycho Xangdi, you, what a LIAR! Haha!
Oops, as always, psycho Xangdi will cut and paste平遥 and use google to
post a list of平遥 but he still has no clue about平遥. Haha!
Hey Psycho Xangdi, how come you don't understand the following Chinese
sentence:
喂 Psycho Xangdi 屁精! 甘霖老木賽羚羊! 聽不懂吧?! 好爽! 哈哈!
I have been posting this Chinese sentence many many times and you
psycho Xangdi still have no clue what I have been saying. That’s
hilarious!!! Haha!
Oops, psycho Xangdi is going to repost his stolen Filipino girl's
photo to "prove" (frame actually) abianchen is "Filipino whore Meichi"
for revenge. Abianchen has become the most important person in his
life. Psycho Xangdi even calls himself "Virus for Dabian". Can you
believe it?!
On Nov 11, 2:32 pm, Anti-DabianchenVirus <wuso...@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
> Hey, ugly lesbian puta abianchen/Meichi, tell us why you hate your own
> Philippino people so much, that you renounced your own ethnic group
> and your gender to become "a guy from Taiwan"? Must be because of your
> failed sex-change operation that made you look like this, huh:http://www.flickr.com/photos/64156901@N00/3415206204/. Did you get
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