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“The issues and regulation of BPA and its replacements are the story of the failed chemical safety system,” says former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree, the lead sponsor of the state’s first-in-the-nation Kids-Safe Products Act. “We weren’t wrong to try to phase out certain flame retardants or BPA, given their health impacts. But that the industry replaces these with chemicals that are equally bad makes the game of whack-a-mole very frustrating.”