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Bisphenol A

Is bisphenol A (BPA) nasty stuff to be eating? There isn’t a decisive decision on this plastic additive that’s present in the wrapping of many food products, but:

…for those of you who like to worry, Consumer Reports just published results from tests of a bunch of canned foods that revealed some pretty high readings in such pantry favorites as green beans and vegetable soup.

There’s a link down the NPR page that presents an amusing/troubling finding: Vital Choice Tuna in the BPA-free can contains a very significant amount of BPA.

  • Headline of the day: How to avoid a spike in hedgehog deaths on bonfire night.

    It’s all about Guy Fawkes night and the prediction that hedgehogs will be extinct in Britain by 2025. You probably want to read about here.

    • Posted in Animal World, Enviro.

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    By Green – December 3, 2009

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