is the fda concern about bpa? and what does the fda plan to do about those concerns? >> well, we are concerned. certainly i am aware of some of the study is that have raised issues in an animal populations in some of the information about bpa in many components of the food supply. we are starting to see activities at the local and state level in terms of action with respect to bpa and i would hope that fda could really be providing leadership on some of these issues of assessing and analyzing resco. we are taking another look at the bpa issue, the acting chief scientist of the fda has been asked to take the lead on this because, of course, this is a decision where we have to bring the best available scientific data to bear. we need to look at all of the studies and examined them. but it is an issue of great consequence for americans. as a mother as well as a physician, it's an issue that i think we need to look as seriously and afford to be able to come back with some reports from a serious look at is being taken and we expect that it is going to be a task for him ove

it cannot be well studied but a chemical we are all exposed to upwards of more than 90% of us have bpa in our body because the cdc has a by monitoring program so we're all expose but we don't know exactly how although it is often at -- and all of the bottles and our babies are exposed somehow perhaps leaching and from the bottles that have until recently bpa. because there hundreds of studies and depending on what studies to use you can say it causes harm or it does not. the discussion is not so much does it cause harm in animals by which animals doesn't cause harm in and out was that important to extrapolate that to humans? industry shows no effects and have paid for a number of exercises where they put the literature and they say there is no effect. there have been a couple of federally funded -- federally funded the thames will that have mixed results. some included there could be something here and some said there are not. but this is the chemical we need? given that we cannot show their safe and there are hundreds of studies and of those paid for government at university 90% show

room for concern and we wrote to you and you wrote back that you have agreed to review the safety of bpa so let me just say thank you on that point. i think it is important that we look at all the documents and evidence of the study is not just to studies when they're over 100 others that raised concern at this venal away and also on food safety in the lab situation. it has been my concern the last commissioner thought food safety was too close labs which i thought was the wrong idea so we have always fought a reorganization or closing of these labs and we actually had to put in legislation to make sure these feel people in critical work for the fda and safety of the american people stay on their jobs. and recently wrote back to me, myself and a chairman waxman indicating that there are no current or future plans to close or consolidate many of these 13 field laboratories and also went on and said that you were hoping you'll be able to hire and 70 new analysis or 13 laps to replace staff lost over the last few you fiscal year so thank you for that and without objection out like to place