BPA Food Exposure

With so much focus on the presence of Bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic water bottles, a lesser-known reality is that BPA is far more ubiquitous in processed food and drink products than previously thought. In fact, exposure to BPA is much more likely when consuming processed food in tin cans – ranging from soups to soda pop to infant formula than just from plastic water bottles.

BPA is normally found in can linings that are designed to prevent the food from interacting with the metal cans, with BPA also contributing to increasing the longevity of the canned food.

Although opinions still vary on the safety of BPA exposure, increasingly companies are coming clean about BPA in their products in direct response to consumer demands. Governments are also becoming a little less optimistic about the positive benefits of BPA with the European Union and the US Food And Drug Administration both undertaking reviews of the effects of BPA exposure on human health. Canada, Denmark and France have recently banned or limited the use of BPA in plastic baby bottles.

Via Reuters

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