BPA in canned foods marketed to kids

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There’s more than just enchanting princess shapes lurking in your kid’s Campbell’s Disney Princess condensed soup. The folks at San Francisco’s Breast Cancer Fund want you to know there’s also a toxic chemical that doesn’t make the ingredient list along with the modified food starch and soy lecithin.

It’s called bisphenol-A, or BPA, and it’s not only found in hard plastic bottles. It’s also in the lining of canned foods that is meant to provide a barrier between the food and the can. This chemical has been found to leach into the food and is linked to early puberty in females, attention deficit disorders and cancers such as breast and prostate.
The Breast Cancer Fund tested 12 canned foods marketed to and largely consumed by children and found that every sample contained BPA. The highest levels were found in Campbell’s Disney Princess and Toy Story soups, but BPA was also found in organic Annie’s Homegrown Cheesy Ravioli as well as Earth’s Best Organic Elmo Noodlemania Soup.

The study, released today, is part of the Breast Cancer Fund’s “Cans Not Cancer” campaign to convince canned food makers to replace BPA with a safer option. For more information, go here.
http://blog.sfgate.com/chronrx/2011/09/20/bpa-in-canned-foods-marketed-to-kids/

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1. it makes me very, very sad to see Annie's on that list...

:(

[SheilaT]

2. While I fully appreciate the convenience

of things like canned foods, I just wish more people would cook from scratch. It's not all that hard. And doesn't even take all that much time. Plus it's cheaper.

[HuckleB]

3. Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics-leach-hormone-like-chemicals

Third of Tested Plastic Products Found to Leach Toxic Substances in Swedish Study
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110516181337.htm

Even BPA-Free Plastics Leach Harmful Chemicals
http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=27230



Perhaps BPA-free doesn't mean much either.