Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Groups urge BPA ban in all food packaging

globeandmail.com: : "BPA isn't completely stable in packaging and traces migrate due to the natural acidity of many foods and the effects of the high temperatures used in food sterilization.

The amounts leaching from cans are minuscule - often only parts per billion - but naturally produced estrogen is active at the parts-per-trillion level, a thousand times less."

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