A new study shows that BPA was detected in 92% of canned foods tested.

Canned food companies claim that BPA is safe and necessary to protect food from metal corrosion and bacterial contamination. But hundreds of scientific studies show health effects from even low exposures to BPA, including cancer, abnormal behavior, diabetes, heart disease, infertility, developmental and reproductie harm, obesity, and early puberty.

This excellent study gives detailed information on health effects of BPA, where it is found in canned foods, and how much expsoure to BPA you can actually get from eating canned foods over the course of a day. Remember too, many restaurants and take-out places use a lot of canned foods–perhaps even more than you would use at home.

The solution here is to choose packaged foods in glass jars and make your own meals from fresh organic ingredients.

No Silver Lining: An Investigation into Bisphenol A in Canned Foods