Groundswell: CLCV Blog

At first, I thought it was a bad April Fool's joke: A bill requiring warnings on all reusable bags?

Unfortunately, it's not a bad joke, but a very bad policy proposal. State Senator Tony Strickland has introduced a bill, SB 1106, that would require the following warning label on all reusable bags:

Once again, the Food and Drug Administration has failed to protect America's families from a ubiquitous toxic chemical.

One day ahead of a court-imposed deadline of March 31, the FDA finally responded to a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council asking the agency to ban the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) as a food additive with this:

"FDA has determined, as a matter of science and regulatory policy, that the best course of action at this time is to continue our review and study of emerging data on BPA."

UPDATE: The FDA issued its decision on March 30 allowing BPA to remain in food packaging.