Chemical used in water bottles linked to prostate cancer

I've long supected this. I also believe that the process used to manufacture the bottles and the burning of fuel to transport them are worse for our bodies than ingesting most tap water (of course there are exceptions). In many cases the bottled water actually comes from the tap to begin with.

Researchers in the U.S. have linked exposures to trace amounts of bisphenol A, a widely used chemical that leaks from many plastics products, to prostate cancer in animal experiments. The discovery is considered the first direct scientific evidence connecting prostate cancer to bisphenol A, or BPA, a
chemical used to make the polycarbonate for hard plastic water bottles and baby bottles, and the dental sealants used on children's teeth, among its many consumer uses. The dose causing the adverse effect, given to newborn rats, was set by the researchers to be similar to the amounts commonly found in the blood of people in Western countries exposed to polycarbonate plastic and other BPA-containing consumer items. This dose was 60 per cent below levels Health Canada considers safe, and suggests that current regulatory standards may be too lax.