Check out the post for more info.Īpril ended up being all about dairy and vitamin D.Īpril was all about dairy after a flare-up on Twitter on the topic, and went on to talk about vitamin D. It’s my quick and easy way of fact-checking online information – an increasingly important skill these days. In March I recorded an episode for the A Dash of Science podcast, and I went on to write a post about VARD, which stands for Verify, Author, Reasonableness and Date. In other words, unless you’re actually working with it – in which case you should have received safety training – there’s no need to be concerned. In a report, the European Food Safety Authority said that the health concern for BPA is low at their estimated levels of exposure. It’s not a harmless substance by any means, but it won’t surprise anyone to learn that the risks had, as is usually the case, been massively overstated. BPA is also used in a number of other things, not least the heat sensitive paper used to produce some shopping receipts. Anyway, BPA is a chemical in many plastics, and of course plastic waste had become – and remains – a hot topic. It’s our penance for daring to enjoy Christmas. There’s always one around January/February time.
In February I wrote a piece about BPA (Bisphenol A), which was the chemical scare of the day. February featured BPA: an additive in many plastics.
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