According to research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Cincinnati, early exposure to a widely used industrial chemical in plastics manufacture may be linked to prostate cancer later in life.

Bisphenol A, a xenoestrogen contained in plastic bottles, microwave cookware and food can liners has been found to leech out of the products under certain conditions and be ingested.

Now, lab research on rats finds that fetal exposure to BPA causes genetic changes in the rats prostate glands...