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Category: bpa

BPA Free Thanksgiving?

Posted on: Oct 29, 2011

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Food Safety | 14 Comments

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(Re-posted from a while ago but a good one to revisit!) Since all this started I’ve been trying desperately to come up with alternatives to the old family favorites that require a can of this or that. So here’s a few solutions I’ve come up with that replace those cans that plague our meals with [...]

Holiday Help: Pacific Natural Foods Cream of Mushroom Soup

Posted on: Nov 16, 2010

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Food Safety | 8 Comments

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Last year I did an article about making traditional Thanksgiving recipes a BPA Free makeover. Many of our holiday favorites require canned ingredients to make them the foods we love during the holidays. In my own effort to stop using all canned food items in my life (which has been really easy – I haven’t [...]

General Mills Muir Glen Ditching BPA in Canned Tomatoes But…

Posted on: Nov 3, 2010

Filed Under Articles, Bisphenol-A | 12 Comments

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I ran over an article at the same time that my friend from Ely Organics did on Facebook and we were questioning the accuracy of the information. So of course we started digging around and I decided to give Muir Glen a call to get clarification. Or at least as much clarification as a helpful [...]

2010 Infant Formula Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Mar 29, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Food Safety, Product Safety | 9 Comments

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This one was really hard to write. It was a bit of phone calling, a lot of digging and a lot of reading. I had no real intention of doing a baby formula cheat sheet but Healthy Child Healthy World asked me to help out and then I became so engrossed in it that I [...]

Batter Blaster Organic Pancake Batter: BPA in Packaging?

Posted on: Mar 9, 2010

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Food Safety | 11 Comments

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My husband came home from a grocery shopping trip not long ago and he had a look of total excitement and triumph on his face. “Look what I found!” he said as he handed me a whipped cream can looking item. It was the new Batter Blaster that I keep hearing about. At first glance [...]

Consumer Reports Tests Find BPA in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Posted on: Nov 5, 2009

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Food Safety | 3 Comments

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Here we go … BPA in the news again. I have been wanting to post something about this since I saw it on the evening news the other night. Consumer Reports just published new findings (but none of it is really news to us) about levels of BPA in canned food. We knew it was [...]

Your SIGG Bottle May Contain BPA

Posted on: Aug 28, 2009

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Product Safety | Comments Off

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It’s come to light that some older models of SIGG reusable aluminum water bottles contain BPA in the epoxy lining inside the bottle. As you may already know, the lining on the interior of SIGG’s has been questioned for some time and many skeptics thought that the epoxy may contain BPA… turns out they were [...]

Bisphenol-A: How Much Evidence Do We Need?

Posted on: Jun 25, 2009

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I was going to let this slide but I’ve heard the same few phrases a few times and now I’m thoroughly annoyed. These phrases include things like “activist hysteria” and “BPA has been around for 60 years, don’t you think the FDA would have taken notice if it was harmful?” and “activists in the blogosphere [...]

Coke and Del Monte Plot to Deceive Consumers about BPA

Posted on: Jun 9, 2009

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I wrote last week about the meetings manufacturers had regarding the public view of BPA. Since then the meeting notes we’re leaked to the Internet and many of us were fuming that companies like Coca Cola and Del Monte were discussing using scare tactics and a pregnant woman role model to change our perception of [...]

Manufacturers Who Use BPA are Getting Scared

Posted on: May 31, 2009

Filed Under Articles, Bisphenol-A | 4 Comments

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There’s been a bevy of articles floating around this week about meetings being held by manufacturers of cans and soda products. They’re concerned because of the public concerns regarding Bisphenol-A (BPA). Including the makers of Coca-Cola and Campbell. If you aren’t already aware, soda cans as well as the majority of canned food is lined [...]