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(NaturalNews) A product survey conducted by The Independent found that the
toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products
in the United Kingdom.
BPA is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world. It is used to harden
plastic in everything from infant and water bottles to mobile phone and computer casings,
and also to make linings for cans of food, beverages and infant formula. Yet a growing
body of research has implicated the chemical as an endocrine (hormone) disruptor that can
lead to cancer, birth defects,
behavioral problems and other diseases.
The FDA recently reversed its position on the safety of BPA, acknowledging concern
over the chemical's effects on the development and brains of infants and young children.
This move sparked a new, still-ongoing review of the chemical's safety by the European
Food Safety Authority. The British Food Standards Agency still maintains that BPA poses no health risks.
The Independent surveyed manufacturers General Mills, Heinz, Spam, Asda, Baxters,
John West, Princes, Premier Foods, Sainsburys and Tesco about the use of BPA in the liners
of several of their canned food
products. Together, the 20 products
represented account for £921 million ($1.4 billion) in sales, or 43 percent of the total
for all canned food sold in the United
Kingdom.
Every manufacturer sold at least one product lined with BPA. The only cans not lined with
the chemical were those containing Tesco canned fruit and Tesco Value tomato products. Yet
Tesco and Tesco Value canned fish both came in cans lined with BPA.
Other top-selling products in BPA-lined cans included soups, baked beans, corned beef,
canned pies, chopped ham, long spaghetti and Green Giant Niblets.
Claire Dimmer of Breast Cancer UK called for manufacturers to clearly label all cans that
are lined with BPA.
"Otherwise it's impossible for us to make a decision on ways of limiting our and our
families' exposure to this chemical," she said. (8.30.2010, by David Gutierrez, staff
writer) http://www.naturalnews.com/z029604_BPA_soup_cans.html
Sources for this story include:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s....
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