A lone suburban New York county, Suffolk County on Long Island is the first US area to ban the use of BPA, or bisphenol A, in bottles or sippy cups for children under 3 years old.
BPA is frequently used in plastic containers like bottles and sippy cups to harden the plastic and make it less vulnerable to shattering. While the evidence is still out on the effects of BPA, many scientists do believe the long-term effects of BPA...
