A public health debate is raging around the world about the safety of bisphenol A (BPA). Chemical manufacturing and packaging companies claim BPA is safe and necessary to protect food from metal can corrosion and bacterial contamination.
However, scientists, health professionals, and children’s and environmental health advocates are concerned that hundreds of independent peer-reviewed scientific studies have found negative health outcomes resulting from low doses of BPA.
Canada, Denmark, five U.S. states, three New York State counties, and the city of Chicago have restricted the use of BPA in certain children’s products, like baby bottles and infant formula can linings. Other countries and U.S. states are actively considering BPA restrictions and bans.
This report provides new data about the amount of BPA that could be consumed from eating canned food and drinks available in the U.S. and Canada.
For No Silver Lining, we tested the food and beverage contents of 50 cans collected
from 19 U.S. states and Ontario, Canada. The report reveals that BPA is a routine contaminant in canned foods. Our study details potential exposure to BPA from not just one can, but from meals prepared with canned food and drink that an ordinary North American person might consume over the course of a day.
It shows that meals involving one or more cans of food can cause a pregnant woman to ingest levels of BPA that have been shown to cause health effects in developing
fetuses in laboratory animal studies.
- polycarbonate water
- baby bottles,
- 5-gallon water coolers,
- printer inks, toners and thermal receipt paper (used by most gas stations and supermarkets),where BPA can rub off paper onto our hands and into our mouths.
Exposure of animals to low doses of BPA has been linked
- to cancer,
- abnormal behavior,
- diabetes and
- heart disease,
- infertility,
- developmental
- and reproductiveharm, obesity, early puberty,
- a known risk factor for breast cancer.
The Environmental Working Group found BPA in the cord blood of newborn babies.
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Although bisphenol A (BPA) has been getting a lot of media attention in recent years, scientists have known for nearly 80 years that BPA acts like a synthetic estrogen.
PA was first synthesized in the 1890s. It was identified as a synthetic estrogen in the
1930s and considered for pharmaceutical use, but it was ultimately not pursued due to the identification of DES as a stronger synthetic estrogen. Decades after millions of women had been prescribed DES in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriages, doctors discovered its link to a rare form of cancer and reproductive problems in women whose mothers took the drug.
These studies went on to determine that more than 90 percent of DES daughters (those exposed to DES while in the womb) have abnormalities of the reproductive tract.
Animal research sounded an early warning that human exposure to DES in the womb could lead to serious reproductive tract harm and hormone-sensitive cancers later in life.20 This was later confirmed by real life tragedies as many women who were exposed to DES in the womb developed those diseases and fertility problems in adolescence and adulthood.
More than two decades of research on the low dose effects of BPA show similar patterns of reproductive problems in animals and cells exposed to BPA.Unlike the relatively limited human exposure to DES, nearly all of us living in North America are exposed to BPA from a myriad of sources on a daily basis, like canned foods, which could pose serious health problems for ourselves and future generations.
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