A non-estrogenic alternative to Bisphenol A at last?
Sarah Vogel, Ph.D., is Vice-President for Health.
Last week a new study was published showing promising results for a non-estrogenic alternative to polymers based on bisphenol A (BPA) used to line the inside of food cans. The paper, in Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), evaluated the estrogenicity of an alternative to BPA— tetramethyl bisphenol F (TMBPF) — and its final polymer product developed by Valspar, a major paint and resin company. The authors found that, unlike BPA and some of its analogs that have been used as substitutes, TMBPF exhibited no signs of estrogenicity.
This was an unusual paper on a number of fronts—how the material was selected, how it was evaluated and by whom. In this post I’m going to explore who was involved, what testing was done and what this might mean for the BPA alternatives market.