Caution: BPA exposure from canned foods

[JusticeZero]

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2011-releases/canned-soup-bpa.html

A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five days had a more than 1,000% increase in urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared with when the same individuals consumed fresh soup daily for five days...

BPA has been associated with heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, and we last saw it when people raised the alarm about plastic bottles.

The study did not speak to long term effects, or to the BPA-health link beyond the scope of the research method used, which was to test for the presence or absence and the intensity of exactly what they found. That said, most evidence seems to indicate that having a lot of a plasticizing chemical bouncing around your body probably isn't the healthiest condition. More than ten times increase is pretty significant.

More reason to cut out soda, other canned beverages, and to try to cut back on canned foods.

[DWx]

It is surprising we still use BPA in a lot of things as its adverse effects have been known since the 90s...