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Canned food also contains chemicals linked to health problems.
RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Your can of soup could put your health at risk, and not just because it contains way too much salt. A new report published by the National Workgroup for Safe Markets, a coalition of public- and environmental health-advocacy groups, reveals that cans of food expose people to dangerous levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting chemical that has been linked to everything from childhood aggression to obesity and heart disease
THE DETAILS: Consumer Reports conducted similar tests on BPA in canned food a few months ago, but this new report, titled "No Silver Lining," looks at the levels in canned food products as well as how much BPA an average person would ingest from eating the foods packaged in those cans. The authors collected 50 samples of canned food from home pantries in 19 states and one Canadian province, and had them tested by an independent lab to determine BPA levels in each can. Then, they calculated how much an average-weight (156.5 pounds) woman in her 20s would ingest from a typical daily diet of canned and fresh foods (they focused on young women because they are most likely to go on to bear children, and more and more studies are finding that some of the most damaging effects of BPA in children happen while they're in utero). The laboratory detected BPA in 92 percent of the canned foods, ranging in levels from non-detectable to 1,140 parts per billion. In terms of what that means to people eating canned food, here's a brief summary of what they found:
• By eating a serving of canned peaches with breakfast, a can of ravioli for lunch, a can of chicken noodle soup as a snack, canned chili for dinner, and using coconut milk in a dessert a woman could ingest 75.4 ?g, or 1.06 ?g/kg body weight of BPA;
• By eating a serving of canned peaches with breakfast, a can of lentil soup for lunch, and tuna casserole made with canned tuna, peas, cream of mushroom soup, and vegetable broth for dinner, followed by bananas in canned coconut milk for dessert, she could ingest 87.28 ?g, or 1.23 ?g/kg body weight of BPA through canned foods alone.
• By eating no canned goods in the morning and afternoon, and just one can of soda and a single serving of green beans at dinnertime, she could ingest 138.19 ?g, or 1.95 ?g/kg body weight of BPA.
Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said that an exposure level of 50 ?g/kg body weight of BPA per day is safe, the authors note that these low levels have been found in both human and animal studies to be linked with aggressive behavior, changes in breast tissue and other reproductive organs, and long-term reproductive health problems.
WHAT IT MEANS: The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), an industry group that includes canned-food companies, responded to the report by insisting that BPA is safe and that more studies are needed to show that the levels in canned foods are harmful. "GMA will rely on the current and recently reaffirmed regulatory determinations by FDA [Food and Drug Administration] that foods in cans with linings that utilize BPA are safe," the group said in a statement. However, they may be relying on old FDA opinions. The agency for years insisted that BPA was safe, relying on two industry-funded studies confirming their position and ignoring the hundreds of independently funded studies that disagreed with them. But in January, they finally conceded that BPA could be dangerous. "On the basis of results from recent studies using novel approaches to test for subtle effects, both the National Toxicology Program at the National Institutes of Health and FDA have some concern about the potential effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and young children," the agency writes on its website. It also notes that it is encouraging the industry to seek alternatives to BPA-based can linings.
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They said that the company however has now decided to give its employees the chance to choose between healthy food (which is more expensive but tastes better) and canned food.WEVAC University
Canned Food for lunch
Canned Food has some advantages and disadvantages. One of the good things is that it last very long, the bad thing is that it might not be the most health food on the planet. I have 2 german friends who work for oakley sonnenbrillen and told me: bei oakly gibt es realtiv viel essen aus der dose. Das macht jetzt die verschiedenen sonnenbrillen und marken sonnenbrillen nicht unbedingt besser aber für das unternehmen ist das eine günstige lösung.
They said that the company however has now decided to give its employees the chance to choose between healthy food (which is more expensive but tastes better) and canned food.
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The truth is that many people are not at all aware how they get caught with Cancer and other related diseases. The normal public is not at all aware of the dangers they take in as a daily life style. The easiness of canned food and the regular use of it would give them a real life threatening breast cancer treatment would be known only when the stage is quite worse.
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Legislation is always far, far behind the sound decision making process of informed individuals. Don't eat canned food. Tell your friends. Post this article on your facebook page. If people stop buying it, the capitalists will pay attention. And: you might find out you prefer home made stuff better! There are absolutely options out there, no one HAS to eat canned food. The day may come where government does not listen to big industry, but that day does not seem imminent to me....
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As if there is chemicals in these canned foods.As long as they get their greedy little hands to bring more money in, not one person from the top CEO's gives a damn what they are selling as long as their pockets keep filling up.Everything we eat is horrible.Does anyone know that becel is horrible for us.It contains canola oil.The high praise for canola is propaganda put forth by the canadian government.Canola oil depletes us of vitamin E to a dangerously low level.The truth is we don't know the truth.Canola oil is used as a lubricant,fuel soap,and synthetic rubber base as well as an illuminant for slick color pages in magazines.It forms latex like substances that cause red blood cells to clump together.Any way I have 8 pages on the dangers of canola and the symptons are unreal,Shame on the makers of BECEL telling us it's so good,Shame on them,but it's filling their pockets so why would they care.They have over half canola oil in their becel,imagine that. They use it because it's so cheap.Now i use butter and I won't even start on dog food.My 2 dogs have never had dog food and never will and they are very healthy.Have a good day everyone.
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No wonder Cancer is so rampant. When will the govenment ban use of chemicals in our food??????????
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Who the hell is the Grocery Manufacture Association(GMA)to tell senators on a health committee that they,the GMA,will not support a bill against use of BPA's! Maybe Big Business thinks that they own all the senators,but that is blatant.The GMA will do what the law says.They have options of proving data is incorrect or that the studies aren't thorough enough,but they don't have the right to just say that they won't support a bill or a law.
The EPA should not be depending on industry for test results for any product.Have we not learned a thing from the oil industry as it concerns safety issues on drilling under water,as in the gulf oil spill?