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 The epoxy resin in tin cans suspected leak BPA into the food.
Four reporters on the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has eaten canned food for two days. The concentrations of bisphenol A in their urine increased by several thousand percent.
After canned food diet increased concentrations of bisphenol A in the
urine of all four reporters. At its peak increased the level of 4600
per cent, at least by 2800 percent.
This shows that conservation is a very important source of bisphenol A, said Bo Jonsson, Professor at Lund University, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. According to the previous sample, people in Sweden are normally around three nanograms of BPA per milliliter of urine. One of the reporters had 86 nanograms for canned food diet. Bisphenol A is a hormone disrupting substance in Sweden recently banned in packaging aimed at children. But any action against tins for adults has not been taken. Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet carried out its experiments because of the suspicion that the epoxy resin in tin cans leak BPA into the food. Reporters' diet consisted for example of canned ravioli, ice cream condensed milk cans and mikrat coffee in the plastic cup. Exactly what food has contributed to bisphenol increase is not known. |
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