Report: BPA in Canned Food - Behind the Brand Curtain

Many food companies have pledged publicly to stop using bisphenol A-based epoxy coatings to line their metal food cans, because BPA is a synthetic estrogen that scientists have linked to breast cancer, reproductive damage, developmental problems, heart disease and other illnesses.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) analyzed 252 canned food brands in a comprehensive survey of the American canned food marketplace. It has found that although some food companies and brands offer BPA-free packaging in all product lines, others still use cans containing BPA. Disturbingly, consumers have no reliable way of knowing whether a canned food item is BPA-free (EWG news item, 3 June 2015).
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If you would like to learn more about the test methods of commonly used food contact materials and the test results, you can follow the NVC Workshop Test management Food Contact Materials (in Dutch).

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