The Neighborhood Toxicologist

Over the past two years the debate about bisphenol A (BPA) has become a quagmire where highly regarded scientists who once worked side by si...

Roughly a year ago one of the first studies showing that BPA, the known estrognic plastic used to make polycarbonate bottles, leached into ...

Though I am not in the habit of citing newspaper articles – after receiving the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s weekly Integrity...

My neighbor, the “real” doctor, called the other day, asking for “The Neighborhood Toxicologist.” “So, what are you doing about your bicycle...

First published in the Montague Reporter, May 2008 I t was a simple enough design. Pink and white tampon applicators separated by blue mi...

I am listening to NPR’s All Things Considered – it’s a story about bisphenol A , a common chemical that many of us have heard about by now. ...

I’d been blabbing away for the past hour or so about chemical contaminants, imparting my imperfect knowledge upon my seven brilliant college...

An ongoing debate about the health impacts of bisphenol A (BPA), the ubiquitous chemical used in production of polycarbonate - that hard cle...