Posted AT 5:37 AM EDT on 17/04/08
Yeast testing gave rise to health concerns
Like many of the most fascinating discoveries in science, the possibility that bisphenol A might present a health problem emerged completely by accident.In the early 1990s, researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California were investigating yeast to see whether it had a primitive estrogen receptor, and were finding something wonky going on in their laboratory.
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