Slow Death By Rubber Duck

An excerpt from this Feb 20, 2010 NPR story -

Inspired by Morgan Spurlock's fast-food gluttony in the movie Super Size Me, two environmental activists from Canada devised their own experiment. Instead of fast food, Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie absorbed themselves in everyday products like shampoos, soaps and cleaners to find out what kind of damage might be done to their health.

The authors didn't need to take baths in mercury or eat tuna for a whole year to see the chemical levels in their bodies skyrocket. After just two days of eating only canned food microwaved in plastic containers and drinking from one of his son's old baby bottles, Smith saw a major rise in the levels of BPA in his body.

"My levels increased over eight times," he says. "You can only imagine what the levels in an infant would look like if after two or three years of their sole source of nutrition being a BPA baby bottle. Their levels would just be through the roof."

Their book about the adventure is called Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things.

Here's a video about the authors' campaign to ban BPA - What You Can Do:



Need More Info about BPA? Check out this excellent PBS Bill Moyers video -