This very important campaign was launched today in the UK by Breast Cancer UK. It already has a lot of news coverage:
www.nomorebpa.org.uk/news
Jamie Page
The Cancer Prevention and Education Society
No More BPA Campaign
Breast Cancer UK today (1st Dec 09) launched the No More BPA Campaign – www.nomorebpa.org.uk – which is calling for the UK Government to take action to end the use of BPA in baby bottles sold in the UK. This call is backed by NCT (formerly National Childbirth Trust), UNISON, The Women’s Environmental Network, the Cancer Prevention and Education Society and CHEM Trust.
In a nationwide UK public opinion poll, released by Breast Cancer UK, of more than 2000 UK adults, 79% said ‘that it is important that the UK Government acts in a precautionary way when it comes to protecting babies and very young children from BPA’. While 61% of the public think that the UK Government should ‘act to end the use of BPA in baby bottles’ while only 10% think the Government ‘should follow the current Food Standards Agency guidelines and leave things as they are’.
An influential group of UK scientists, have also written to the UK Secretary of State for Health urging him to ‘to adopt a standpoint consistent with the approach taken by other Governments who have ended the use of BPA in food contact products marketed at children’.
The launch of the campaign has been covered by both broadcast and print media in the UK and internationally.
Hratche Koundarjian
Campaign Manager
Breast Cancer UK
Charity No: 1088047
T: 07905 911 039
W: www.breastcanceruk.org.uk
Back our campaign to end the use of the chemical BPA in baby bottles sold in the UK:
www.nomorebpa.org.uk
