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Boston Family Life: Should you throw out all your canned food? Consumer Reports find most contain BPA
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Consumer Reports (Dec 09) reports BPA is several canned foods including organic and some even labeled BPA free. http://tinyurl.com/y9vtb2y 2 days ago |
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Get this -- Now we don't just have to watch what we eat, we have to watch what's holding the food too! http://bit.ly/3kbGkC 2 days ago |
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willing 2 trade convenience 4 toxins? http://bit.ly/Y1jfg 2 days ago |
Should you throw out all your canned food? Consumer Reports find most contain BPA
Boston Family Life —
... Of most canned products pictured here almost all popular brand-name foods were found by Consumer Reports to contain BPA. The FDA is in the process of reevaluating what it would consider to be the safe level of the chemical, because current regulations have been unchanged since the 1980's, not reflecting hundreds of new studies. The chemical, by the way, has been restricted all together in Canada. BPA has been linked to reproductive abnormalities, a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. The study have found amounts sufficient to do harm in ...
Should you throw out all your canned food - Consumer Reports find most contain BPA
Boston Family Life —
... Of most canned products pictured here almost all popular brand-name foods were found by Consumer Reports to contain BPA. The FDA has not yet decided what it would consider to be the safe level of the chemical (which, by the way, has been restricted all together in Canada). BPA has been linked to reproductive abnormalities, a heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease. The study have found amounts sufficient to do harm in animals, at the least. Organic brands did not differ much from non-organic, as well as products labeled "BPA-free" were, in ...
BPA Found in Cans Marked BPA-Free
MomsRising Blog —
Just when you thought the BPA battle couldn’t get any more frustrating… Consumer Reports just published a study where they found BPA in food from nearly all cans tested – including those marked “BPA-Free.” Grrrrr.
According to the release:
“Consumer Reports’ latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods we tested contain some BPA. The canned organic foods we tested did not always have lower BPA levels than nonorganic brands of similar foods analyzed. We even found the ...
Many Pantry Staples Contain BPA
Strollerderby —
Campbell’s chicken noodle soup. Del Monte green beans. Star-Kist tuna. Juicy Juice.
A Consumer Reports (via Change.org) test found that the 19 products, all common and popular packaged foods, contain some amount of the chemical Bisphenol A. BPA, as you’re surely aware, is public enemy No. 1 these days in the world of family food, as it has been linked in some studies to reproductive problems, breast and prostate cancers, heart disease and diabetes.
Even some SIGG water bottles contain BPA, so ...
High exposure to BPA causes sexual dysfunction in men
Booster Shots —
... BPA was first developed in the 1930s as a synthetic estrogen analog, similar to diethylstilbestrol, but it soon came to be used in the manufacture of plastics, particularly polycarbonates. It is now found in a wide variety of products, including baby bottles, water bottles and the linings of cans used for food and beverages. Some of the chemical is known to seep out of such products, and more than 90% of Americans have BPA in their urine. Consumer Reports published a study recently showing that ...
High exposure to BPA causes sexual dysfunction in men, researchers say
Booster Shots —
... BPA was first developed in the 1930s as a synthetic estrogen analog, similar to diethylstilbestrol, but it soon came to be used in the manufacture of plastics, particularly polycarbonates. It is now found in a wide variety of products, including baby bottles, water bottles and the linings of cans used for food and beverages. Some of the chemical is known to seep out of such products, and more than 90% of Americans have BPA in their urine. Consumer Reports published a study recently showing that ...
Measurable levels of BPA found in popular canned goods
BabyCenter: MOMformation —
... not to mention Similac liquid concentrate baby formula. BPA, a restricted substance found in clear plastic and in food- can liners, has been linked to a heightened risk of certain cancers, including breast and prostate, as well as reproductive abnormalities and heart disease. Yikes! According to the report, the substance was even found in some cans which were labeled “BPA free.” Double yikes! Whether there is such a thing as a “safe level” of BPA remains a point of debate, despite recent animal studies which have indicated “serious health risks even in low doses.” This is yet ...
