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Speakers:
Prof David Coggon, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Southampton
Prof Tony Dayan, Emeritus Professor of Toxicology, University of London
Prof David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Peninsula Medical School
Prof Richard Sharpe, Medical Research Council’s Human Reproductive Sciences Unit, University of Edinburgh
Bisphenol-A is a controversial and widely-used chemical that has been banned in some countries, and there have been some calls for it to be banned in the UK. Various studies have yielded no definitive conclusion, and the Food Standards Agency is currently conducting a review, to be published soon. Here, leading experts discussed all areas including toxicity, endocrine disruptors and the latest research on bisphenol A.