Help eliminate high BPA levels in cans to reduce family BPA levels

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20 people. 5 families. Fresh food intervention. How low can their BPA levels go?

It sounds like the premise for a reality show. But there are no over-the-top TV

antics here. Last week, the Breast Cancer Fund and Silent Spring Institute

released a study which tested the levels of the toxic chemical BPA for five

families. Like many average families across America, these families were

regularly exposed to BPA in their day to day lives through pretty normal

activities: eating canned foods and beverages, eating in restaurants, using

polycarbonate water bottles, and/or microwaving in plastic.

To see if their BPA levels could be lowered, these families were given a fresh

food intervention: three days’ worth of freshly prepared organic meals, no

canned food, and using only glass storage containers. The results were

astounding: When the families took BPA out of their diets, they decreased the

amount of BPA in their bodies by 60 percent on average in just three days![1]

Everyone should be able to be BPA free, but not everyone can because of its

pervasive use by major corporations in our nation.

Now is the time to bring our voices together and to use our collective consumer

power, to make sure all families can reduce their levels of toxic BPA. Our

voices are needed because BPA is one of the most pervasive toxic chemicals in

our modern lives With 2 billion pounds of BPA produced annually in the U.S.,

it's no wonder that over 90% of Americans have detectable levels of BPA in their

bodies.[2] Removing BPA from canned foods is a great first step in reducing our

nation’s BPA exposure.

* Tell major food manufacturers s, Del Monte, and Progresso that enough

is enough! We know BPA is dangerous, and we want it out of our food and

packaging!

http://action.momsrising.org/sign/BCF_BPA1/

Women make the majority of purchasing decisions, so when we bring out voices

together to contact corporations, we can have a powerful impact. And our

powerful impact is needed now because laboratory studies link BPA exposure to

breast cancer, infertility, early onset puberty, ADHD, and obesity. Children,

whose brains and organs are constantly developing, are particularly at risk and

are exposed to more BPA for their size than adults.[3]