In an article published by Food Production Daily on Wednesday, contributor Mark Astley reports that the European Food Safety Authority has begun new research on the effects of low doses of bisphenol-A. This will address a commonly held belief in a "threshold dose" below which it is thought that the chemical is harmless, and the study will take into account ongoing research as well as information regarding the "low dose hypothesis," a theory that some chemicals, even at low doses, may still cause harmful effects.
