date:Feb 28, 2013
Australian scientists have urged caution in interpreting the results of a new study that suggests a chemical used in food packaging may disrupt the development of young brains and be linked to autism.
Researchers at the Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina found that bisphenol A, more commonly known as BPA, affects the growth of a gene in rats that is involved in the development of the nerve cells in the brain and spine.
These results in rats suggest that BPA might have similar aff