Environmental Health
Novel HPLC-MS/MS assay reveals low general exposure to bisphenol A in humans
Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 15th, 2005
BPA "is a weak estrogen. Pharmacokinetic studies of BPA have demonstrated a rapid and extensive metabolism of BPA to the nonestrogenic BPA-monoglucuronide (BPA-gluc)," according to toxicologists in Germany.
"Some investigators have reported that BPA was found at parts per billion concentrations in the tissues or urine of humans without known exposure to BPA," noted W. Volkel and colleagues at the University of Wurzburg. In a recent study, they "developed a rapid and sensitive method for the determination of BPA and...
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