According to Consumer Reports’ testing, the levels of BPA can vary greatly from one can to another, which makes sense when you consider that the BPA leeches from the lining, and a variety of factors, such as heat, can influence the rate of leeching.
In general, canned green beans and canned soups had some of the highest BPA levels of the foods tested. The worst offenders during their tests included:
Del Monte Fresh Cut Green Beans had BPA levels ranging from 35.9 ppb to as much as 191 ppb
Progresso Vegetable Soup had BPA levels ranging from 67 to 134 ppb
Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup had BPA levels ranging from 54.5 to 102 ppb
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.
Putting that in real numbers that would be 3.5 milligrams for someone weighing about 150 pounds.
Del Monte Fresh Cut Green Beans had BPA levels ranging from 35.9 ppb to as much as 191 ppb
Eating a pound of those beans (yikes! a pound of beans?) at the maximum measured level would give you 0.09 milligrams. To hit the federal guidelines you would have to eat 404 pounds of the maximumly contaminated beans a day.
Now you can argue about whether the guidelines are good or not, but I think the quick switches from micrograms/kilogram of body weight to parts per billion without doing some math in the article is an attempt to scare people who won't do the math themselves.
Everything is bad for you. At this rate, I’m moving towards photosynthesis for sustenence.
Two years ago, they came after us with their fear-mongering over miniscule levels of lead in toys, then produced the monstosity called HR 4040 (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act), or what I like to call it: The legal profession job securities act.
Then last year, they started coming after us with their fear-mongering over PhThalates in PVC.
Now this year, it’s BPA.
These people never stop.
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