[Olive]

So, the U.S. FDA has recently determined that there's still no evidence that BPAs have adverse effects to human health. This in spite of the mountain of scientific evidence to the contrary. I gather that some serious lobbying must have taken place for that to happen.

Canada was the first country to effectively declare BPA a toxic substance in September 2010 with many European countries following shortly after. Below you will find a short list of the reasons why BPAs are considered harmful, and why it is a good idea to stop eating packaged foods and opt for fresh ingredients instead. For me, it's just a consolation that I nursed my children until well after they sat at the table to eat solid foods. It was rare that I used plastic bottles, so I hope that the effect was minimum.

Why is BPA considered toxic?
BPA contains xenoestrogens (i.e. act like human estrogens) that are linked to a growing number of health problems, such as early puberty in girls, reduced sperm counts, altered functions of reproductive organs, obesity, diabetes, increased rates of breast, ovarian, testicular, and prostate cancers, and heart disease. They are thought to be particularly harmful to fetuses, infants and children, but may affect adults too.

What products contain BPA?
I think a video would explain this better, but I'm sure you can find more about the subject on the net as well.

This post has been edited by Olive: Fri Apr 06, 2012 06:50 PM

[High-T]

BPA is one of the reasons I stopped using those steam-in-bag vegetables. That, and they usually tasted terrible.

[got2bgood]

I remember when this BPA thing hit the street and being quite surprised. It truly is amazing as time goes along how many things we find that are bad for us, be it the contents of food containers, the preservatives in foods, the air quality in the homes we live in and so on and so forth.

Whether or not the acceptance of BPA is there or not, it is no secret that both Canadian and USA governments are still allowing products into our economy from Asian marketeers that the EEC will not allow. Many of the products being children toys as well as many electronic devices. Perhaps what we need to do is some knowledge sharing since the Europeans still lead the pack.

The buying of fresh items as claimed, is in my opinion still not a guarantee that the items are truly better than the others since there is no indicator of what was in the soil compositions that they came from or what was fed to them. To that end, we are probably just one or two news releases away from claims about that that will shock the economies with its revelations.

I will admit though that buying many foods in plastic be they fresh or other wise, certainly does taste odd to say the least, be it BPA or something else perhaps being released by the food itself as a result of being contained.

A lot of the produce departments used to and perhaps still do, mist their produce with sulphur added to the water to make the food look nicer as it has color enhancing tendencies and other things to last longer. A friend that was starting to go vegan ran into a lot of trouble being sick all the time and it ultimately came down to an allergy to sulphur. Once he stopped eating the fresh veggies and fruit from a few selected sources he was fine again.

I do know one thing for certain, there is nothing worse tasting than fine whiskey served in a plastic glass...I'll bring my own glass container instead.