Search Results for: BPA

December 21, 2010

Washing Our Hands of BPA this Winter

...The average cash register receipt that’s out there and uses the BPA technology will have 60 to 100 milligrams of free BPA. But not all receipts contain BPA. In a...

January 13, 2009

Bisphenol-A (aka BPA) What is it? Where is it? Why do we care?

...in fact, contain BPA. And what about Whole Foods? They have eliminated BPA-containing bottles from their stores, but Whole Foods’ Statement on BPA does not mention cans. The writer of...

April 12, 2011

BPA-Free Does Not Mean Safe. Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals.

...days, and you’ll find rows of plastic products labelled BPA-Free. BPA-Free water bottles… Baby bottles… Pacifiers… In fact, entire shelves of baby products are labelled BPA-free. Are they safe? Plastic...

July 12, 2012

Are BPA-Free Plastic Products, Food Cans, & Register Receipts Safer than Those with BPA in Them?

...materials to use so they can tout their products as BPA-free. But are the substitutes actually safer than BPA itself? The truth is, we don’t know. As I’ve written before,...

August 15, 2008

Oh goody! BPA in my mailbox!

...clicking “Find Your Legislator by your address.” For more information about the dangers of BPA, read Environmental Working Group’s Guide to Bisphenol-A and EWG’s Survey of BPA in Canned Foods....

November 1, 2012

Confession of an Anti-Plastic Activist Caught Red-Handed With a BPA-Lined Can

...my Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup can. My first reaction was utter embarrassment (for being caught eating out of a can lined with BPA or some other mystery chemical and...

October 14, 2010

Canning Food for the Winter is Plastic-Free — Except for the Jar Lids!

...do contain a BPA coating. There are some non-BPA coating options, but none that are entirely plastic free. One of the most promising products I found in my search was...

March 21, 2014

Pressure Cooker Beans – Almost As Convenient as Canned but Without the BPA

...BPA or some other mystery alternative that could be even worse. ) Anyway, I’ve been pressure cooking up a storm every weekend… making big pots of beans to eat during...

September 26, 2017

Who Gives a Crap Recycled or Bamboo Toilet Paper without Plastic

...for the presence of BPA in the recycled toilet paper? We focus on paper sources which exclude thermal paper and, yes, we run regular tests to ensure that BPA is...

October 25, 2007

100 Steps to a Plastic-Free Life

...the brain and nervous system. PC contains BPA. Read more about BPA here. If you must use plastic, make sure it’s not #3, #6, or #7 polycarbonate. (Note: #7 is...