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WHAT IS BISPHENOL-A  (BPA)?

If you are like many people, you try and choose foods that are
free as possible of harmful chemicals such as pesticides. If, on
the other hand, you eat canned beans, canned soups, soft
drinks, you also may be consuming residues of a controversial
chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) that can leak out of the can
linings into your food. Almost all can liners contain BPA. It has
also been known to migrate from polycarbonate plastic water
bottles.

Plastic water and baby bottles, food and beverage can linings
and dental sealants are the most commonly encountered uses of
this chemical. BPA has been found to leach from bottles into
babies' milk or formula.

8 Ways to Avoid Harmful Chemicals from cans and plastic
bottles.

1. If you already own polycarbonate bottles, including the
Nalgene bottles popular on college campuses, labeled #7 on the
bottom, wash them by hand with mild dish washing soap, not in
the dishwasher, to avoid degrading the plastic and increasing
leaching of BPA.

2. Even plastic does not last forever. Look for cracks or
cloudiness on your reusable clear plastic bottles.

3. Use glass baby bottles or plastic bag inserts, which are made
of polyethylene, or switch to polypropylene bottles that are
labeled #5 and come in colors or are milky rather than clear.

4. Choose soups, milk and soy milk packaged in cardboard
"brick" cartons, by Tetra Pak and SIG Combibloc, which are
made of safer layers of aluminum and polyethylene (#2) and also
recyclable.

5. Choose canned foods from makers who don't use BPA, such
as
Eden Foods which sells certified organic canned beans and
other foods.

6. Eat fresh foods in season and save the canned foods for
convenience or emergencies. The exception is some canned
fruit such as that found in smaller fruit-cocktail cans, which do
not require a liner, according to the Can Manufacturers Institute.

7. Buy or can your own fruits and vegetables in safe glass jars.

8. Some wines have been found to contain up to six times the
BPA of canned foods. While most wines probably don't, it's
another good reason to drink in moderation.

To read this entire article please go the
Green Guide Institute.
BORNFREE BOTTLES
Plastic Bottles
Glass Bottles
Training Cups and Drinking Cups
manufactured without Bisphenol-A
(BPA)