"Pending the government announcement, the company will immediately move to clear all 94 Bay stores and 280 [Zellers] stores of BPA baby products, and effective immediately, HBC will no longer sell any baby feeding products that are not BPA-free at any of its stores," the company said in an e-mail to The Canadian Press.

While such animal studies only provide "limited evidence" of bisphenol's developmental risks, the group's draft report stresses the possible effects on humans "cannot be dismissed." The group is made up of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Institutes of Health.

"What we hope they would do is work with the industry to get it out of the system," said [Kapil Khatter]. "We just want them to get it done."