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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency plans to add bisphenol-A, or BPA, a plastic widely used in food packaging and plastic bottles, to its list of chemicals of concern because of potential adverse impacts on the environment and human and animal health.
The agency will require new studies of concentrations of the plastic in surface water, groundwater and drinking water and will require manufacturers that use BPA to provide test data to help evaluate effects on aquatic organisms and wildlife.
