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	<title>Comments on: Plastic Chemical BPA Linked to Lower Sperm Count &amp; Quality</title>
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		<title>By: Jay Fox</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/10/29/plastic-chemical-bpa-linked-to-lower-sperm-count-quality/#comment-23137</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay Fox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Min:
I&#039;ve been saying the same thing for years. Endocrine disruptors may (probably, imo) do more harm down the road than we think.

Recent studies have shown the biggest exposure threat today is the ubiquitous cash register receipt. There are products out there without the BPA, but they are not marked as such, so you never know what type of paper your receipt is on. Cashiers that I have talked to everywhere are ignorant of the issue, and have no idea what kind of paper they are handling all day. Some of these receipts are coated with more than a few percentage points of total weight in BPA, and it comes off rather easily.

Men and women of child bearing years should only accept jobs as cashiers if the employer can prove that the receipts are BPA free.

Employers should tread carefully. Get the BPA-free products now, lest some parent/employee sues over a &quot;defective&quot; baby. Think it won&#039;t happen? In a jobless economy like today&#039;s the poor folk are just looking for a reason to sue somebody, anybody, to get their ticket to the moneyed class. Don&#039;t be that sucker.

You know there&#039;s a lawyer out there somewhere working on it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Min:<br />
I&#8217;ve been saying the same thing for years. Endocrine disruptors may (probably, imo) do more harm down the road than we think.</p>
<p>Recent studies have shown the biggest exposure threat today is the ubiquitous cash register receipt. There are products out there without the BPA, but they are not marked as such, so you never know what type of paper your receipt is on. Cashiers that I have talked to everywhere are ignorant of the issue, and have no idea what kind of paper they are handling all day. Some of these receipts are coated with more than a few percentage points of total weight in BPA, and it comes off rather easily.</p>
<p>Men and women of child bearing years should only accept jobs as cashiers if the employer can prove that the receipts are BPA free.</p>
<p>Employers should tread carefully. Get the BPA-free products now, lest some parent/employee sues over a &#8220;defective&#8221; baby. Think it won&#8217;t happen? In a jobless economy like today&#8217;s the poor folk are just looking for a reason to sue somebody, anybody, to get their ticket to the moneyed class. Don&#8217;t be that sucker.</p>
<p>You know there&#8217;s a lawyer out there somewhere working on it.</p>
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		<title>By: Min</title>
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		<dc:creator>Min</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Heh. I wonder if we shall ever see a link from BPA to autism? There has been evidence that children born to older parents do indeed show a higher risk for autism. While this statistic  can correlate to many reasons, it could also link to longer exposure to BPA therefore a decrease in sperm quality. Ubiquitous BPA exposure has been on the rise.. as has autism. Long shot, yes, but so are vaccinations - I think it&#039;s worth looking into!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heh. I wonder if we shall ever see a link from BPA to autism? There has been evidence that children born to older parents do indeed show a higher risk for autism. While this statistic  can correlate to many reasons, it could also link to longer exposure to BPA therefore a decrease in sperm quality. Ubiquitous BPA exposure has been on the rise.. as has autism. Long shot, yes, but so are vaccinations &#8211; I think it&#8217;s worth looking into!</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Too</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No no no.  You have it all wrong.

You see lower quality sperm is a &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; thing.  That way when we disappoint our parents, we have the perfect excuse.  &quot;I was the product of low quality sperm, what do you expect!&quot;

Lowered expectations.  Improving the happiness &amp; satisfaction levels of humanity for 200 years!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No no no.  You have it all wrong.</p>
<p>You see lower quality sperm is a <i>good</i> thing.  That way when we disappoint our parents, we have the perfect excuse.  &#8220;I was the product of low quality sperm, what do you expect!&#8221;</p>
<p>Lowered expectations.  Improving the happiness &amp; satisfaction levels of humanity for 200 years!</p>
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