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BPA

What is BPA? Bisphenol-A (or BPA as it’s commonly known) is a synthetic xenoestrogen widely used in the production of polycarbonate plastics and suspected of being hazardous to humans since 1930. Bisphenol A is used primarily to make plastics, and products containing bisphenol A-based plastics have been in commerce for more than 50 years. It [...]

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Bottled Water Facts

Why not bottled water? The estimated market value of South Africa’s bottled mineral-water market is over R1.7 billion and expected to increase at a staggering rate during the 2010 Soccer World Cup. In 2005 consumption was estimated at 196 million liters of bottled water a year and that figure is expected to rocket to 568 [...]

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