You may never have heard of a chemical called bisphenol A (BPA), but odds are it’s circulating in your body. It was in 93 percent of 2,517 Americans age 6 and over, tested by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a study that was recently released.
In Thailand 100% of all plastic used in food packaging contains BPA unless labeled as BPA free. In the US it is also still widely used while Canada already declared it as toxic, in Europe it has been banned this year. If you got a kid and it drinks from the bottle, make sure it is a BPA free bottle.
Stay far away from any coffee in a can, those have insane amounts of BPA in the drink. In fact ALL drinks and food will be BPA polluted if they were packed in plastic or a container with a plastic lining. I gathers some info, but this really only scratches the surface.
Note for people in Thailand: NEVER buy hot food in plastic bags, as heat literally sucks the BPA out from the plastic which ends up in the food. Also, request the glass bottle when buying a coke, instead of being given a plastic bag with ice and the drink poured into it. stay far away from these big white water containers they deliver to your home, as they sit in the sun and get scratched up a lot, so the water in them is loaded with BPA. DO NOT refill plastic bottles that were meant for 1 time use, ever…
I suggest not using plastic as a container for any type of food or drink, if you are not 100% sure that it is BPA free plastic.
Bisphenol-A (BPA), known as the “gender bending” chemical because of its connection to male impotence, has now been shown to decrease sperm mobility and quality.
The findings are likely to increase pressure on governments around the world to follow Canada and ban the substance from our shelves.
BPA is used widely to make plastic harder and watertight tin cans.
It is found in most food and drink cans – including tins of infant formula milk – plastic food containers, and the casings of mobile phones, and other electronic goods.
The Telegraph (UK) – “Bisphenol-A now linked to male infertility”
Roughly 95 percent of all baby bottles currently on the market are made of polycarbonate. As the poly in polycarbonate implies, this plastic is a polymer-a chainlike molecule constructed by linking up individual units of a common chemical. In this case, each link is a molecule of bisphenol A.
Pollutants that emulate hormones – especially estrogen, as bisphenol A does – have emerged in recent years as a major environmental concern. Animal studies suggest they might increase an individual’s likelihood of developing certain cancers. During development, exposure to these environmental hormones also risks disrupting the normal growth and function of reproductive tissues and the brain.
For new baby bottles, the water picked up between 1 and 3.5 parts per billion (ppb) bisphenol A. Water heated in used but relatively clear bottles sometimes picked up as much as 6.5 ppb. Water in very worn and heavily scratched bottles acquired between 10 and 28 ppb of the compound.
[A] …Japanese study also looked at bisphenol-A migration from the resin used to line food cans. In Japan, vending machines dispense tea and coffee. Arizono explains that these canned drinks have become the Japanese snack-drink corollary to Coke and Pepsi in the United States. Though soft drinks stored in plastic-lined cans picked up less than 1 ppb of bisphenol A, oolong tea acquired at least 7 ppb, and coffee a whopping 90 to 127 ppb.
ScienceNews – “What’s Coming Out of Baby’s Bottle?”