Just when you thought the BPA issue couldn’t get any more
confusing…Consumer Reports just published a study where they
found BPA in food from nearly all cans tested – including those
marked “BPA-Free.” According to the release: “Consumer Reports’
latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and
green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand
foods we tested contain some BPA. The canned organic foods we
tested did not always have lower BPA levels than nonorganic
brands of similar foods analyzed. We even found the chemical in
some products in cans that were labeled “BPA-free.” The debate
revolves around just what is a safe level of the chemical to
ingest and whether it should be in contact with food. Federal
guidelines currently put the daily upper limit of safe exposure
at 50 micrograms of BPA per kilogram of body weight. But that
level is based on experiments done in the 1980s rather than
hundreds of more recent animal and laboratory studies indicating
serious health risks could re