Kevon,
(topic drift)
I greatly admire the way you write. In fact there are few people on this board that write as well (me being at the bottom of the list). There are 3 people on this board, that if they write for Backpacking Magazine, I would read it more (you being one). Anyway…

I like to listen to consumer watchdogs. When they bring up an issue, then I also want all the science that has been done on it. Since this is the BPA topic, I will use that as an example. I see all this data on lab rats. But I want to know “what does it do on humans?”. But our American media (and I mean collectively) won’t report any of the extensive findings that were actually done on humans (at least I haven’t seen a report). I don’t appreciate watchdogs giving a scare on rat results, w/o more tests done on humans. And they are in. There has been extensive human research. And I’m shocked that Europe will publish this since they tend to the liberal side. And this has been out a while.

http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_1178620772817.htm

-Barry