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Canada/USA Children: BPA found in Canned Goods
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by Barry Artiste | May 28, 2008 at 10:34 pm
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Perhaps there is something to making your own food from scratch from Produce.
Avoiding not only plastic bottles and wrapping, but all canned goods as well.
BPA is a chemical in plastics, which when heated leaches out of the cans plastic lining during the pasteurization process, for without pasteurization, the food contents inside the can will develop bacteria which would fester and grow inside the can and if it didn't make you ill, most likely it would be fatal.
BPA or Bisphenol A is a edocine disruptor which act like Hormones in the human body, disrupting the body's natural hormones. And as anyone knows, Estrogen is one hormone in which BPA seriously screws over. Children are the most affected as they are still growing and developing.
BPA's long term Health effects are not known, as this may take a decade to determine and study it's long term or genetic health effects.
The FDA in the states issued a health warning, sparking some States in the USA passing laws banning BPA, identifying cans which contain BPA etc. This new move will force canning makers to come up with a safer alternative in the canning process.
As for me, It will be all natural, no cans for me.
CTV.ca News Staff
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Tests conducted on the food cans for CTV News and The Globe and Mail shows similar or higher levels of bisphenol A than in baby bottles.
While baby bottles leach about 6 parts per billion of bisphenol A (BPA), the exclusive tests of food cans show:
- A can of children's ravioli leached 6 parts per billion.
- A can of peas and carrots leached 7 parts per billion.
- A can of tomato juice leached 14 parts per billion.
In this study, the first of its kind in Canada, the method of testing used most closely mimics the canning process. Fourteen cans of popular Canadian foods were sent to XenoAnalytical LLC, a laboratory in Columbia, Mo . The cans were emptied of food and rinsed five times before being filled with water and heated for 24 hours at 95 C.
(The food itself from each can could not be accurately tested because other chemicals in the food could interfere with measuring the BPA.)
Studies have shown when cans are heated in the manufacturing process, BPA leaches out of the linings. Foods are first sealed in cans and heated to kill bacteria in the food. Cans are heated to temperatures between 116 C and 121 C, and the length of time varies according to the type of food.
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at 23:09 on May 28th, 2008
I tried to submit this into the Body of my Story, but the Now Public SPAM Filter thought this was Spam.
So until it is fixed I will post it into my comments section.
For those Now Public Readers who wish to know the equipment used to
test or should I say sample for BPA, Labs use an HPLC, normally reverse
phase. I have included an older model but it does the job.
An HPLC stands for "High performance liquid chromatography", which is an extremely sensitive piece of equipment used in chemical analysis in the separation,
identification, purification, and quantification of various
chemical compounds such as BPA.
The development idea for the HPLC and other High Tech devices used
from the 1980s to now, is due in part to Star Trek. Many of the tools
I used in my profession can be linked to just about every device used
in the 1960s Star Trek series, with one exception the equipment used on
the Series Star Trek, was all imagination as it was still almost 2
decades away from even being invented. Now who says TV isn't
educational, and Barry Artiste now wears the Crown of Cliff Clavin?
at 04:04 on May 29th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 04:13 on May 29th, 2008
Thanks Azzay, certainly an important issue affecting many of us and our children.
Your visit is much appreciated.