In the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving, Campbell's and Progresso engage in what foks in the advertising business call "Soup Wars." If you pay attention, you'll find that the commercials and print advertisements evolve from self-propelling, your-grandmother-gave-us-this-recipe, mmm mmm good jingles to smear campaigns against the other candidate. This year, I wouldn't be surprised if bisphenol A, or BPA, is the new MSG and plays a role in the race.
From Nicholas D. Kristof's recent Op-Ed:
"...More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have linked it — though not conclusively — to everything from breast cancer to obesity, from attention deficit disorder to genital abnormalities in boys and girls alike.
Now it turns out it’s in our food.
Consumer Reports magazine tested an array of brand-name canned foods for a report in its December issue and found BPA in almost all of them. The magazine says that relatively high levels turned up, for example, in Progresso vegetable soup, Campbell’s condensed chicken noodle soup, and Del Monte Blue Lake cut green beans.
The magazine also says it found BPA in the canned liquid version of Similac Advance infant formula (but not in the powdered version) and in canned Nestlé Juicy Juice (but not in the juice boxes). The BPA in the food probably came from an interior coating used in many cans..."
5 comments:
Can you tell us exactly what to look for...since BPA is not an ingrediant, how do we know which cans are lined with it? It there a list somewhere? Especially since my little one is eating a lot a canned vegtables.
Absolutely. I've still got to check on this but I'm pretty sure that the dangerous plastics number is 7, as in, where there is a little recycle symbol there is a number inside the arrows classifying it.
Stay tuned...
Check this out: http://www.ewg.org/node/20944
That is true that avoiding #7 labeled polycarbonate plastics is a way to substantially decrease BPA consumption but that is not the scariest source anymore in my opinion. Most manufacturers, such as Nalgene, have removed BPA from their plastic composites in the wake of this public backlash. The area still severely lacking is in the epoxy liners of canned and some bottled goods, including baby food. Those rubbery coatings are not labeled as #7 polycarbonate compounds the last I checked and yet still contain an appreciable concentration of BPA. What's worse is that the longer these goods sit on the shelves, the more BPA leaches out into the food product. Glass is better than canned foods but you have to maintain your guard, American Chemical finds legal ways around everything...
Also check out previous post:
http://justsayingjs.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-you-need-another-reason.html
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