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Concerns grow about safety of BPA use in canned goods
When Oxford University scientists in the mid-1930s first screened bisphenol-A for widespread consumer use, they hoped the chemical compound would be useful in relieving hot flashes and the other symptoms of menopause.
But what became known as BPA flunked as a pharmaceutical - it was too impotent to be used as hormone replacement therapy - and instead flourished as an additive in plastics....
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