Report: Bisphenol A found in Nearly All Canned Food
by Spence Cooper on 11/17/09 at 11:32 am
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Think We'll Stick with Andy's Canned Soup and make the real stuff at home
According to Consumer Reports Magazine, the chemical Bisphenol A has been found in almost all of the 19 name-brand canned foods they tested including Progresso vegetable soup, Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup, and Del Monte Blue Lake cut green beans– the chemical was even found in organic canned foods and canned foods labeled “BPA-free.”
Bisphenol A is used in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, and has been linked to diabetes, heart disease, breast and prostate cancers, and reproductive abnormalities. Current federally approved levels are based on experiments done in the 1980s, but according to the Breast Cancer Fund there are more than 200 recent studies linking low doses of BPA with adverse health effects, indicating serious health risks could result from much lower doses of BPA which has been detected in the urine of more than 90% of Americans.
According to the AMA, high levels of BPA in humans are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and liver-enzyme abnormalities, and women have more miscarriages. Unless we hold Congress and government agencies accountable, we will continue to be at risk like those who have died and been poisoned from massive E. Coli contamination. Call your representative and support Bill H.R. 1523 to ban the use of bisphenol A in food containers, and for other purposes.
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