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Study Verified BPA Exposure
A thorough reading of the Teegaurden study indicates that Dr. Vom Saal’s claim above is erroneous and misleading. First, fruit cans do contain epoxy resin coatings at the top and bottom of the can – previous assessments of canned fruits by groups like EWG support this and demonstrate detectable BPA. Secondly, participants were not simply fed canned fruit – they ate a diet rich in canned goods, including canned vegetables, canned meats, canned juices and canned sodas. Even if fruit was lower in BPA, this was adequately controlled and addressed in the study’s diet options. Most importantly, however, is the scientific analysis and testing of the concentrations of BPA in participants urine after each meal. This is not an ‘assumption’ that the diet was rich in BPA, it is a tested and confirmed result that demonstrates the group exposure was 21% greater than the most recently measured upper 95th percentile of BPA exposure in the general US population. The study participants clearly were exposed to BPA in their diets, at a rate similar to or higher than average American consumers, and it was still not detectable in the blood. These are important findings that cannot be dismissed or minimized due to a few servings of pears.
Posted by Dr. John M. Rost, Chairman, North American Metal Packaging Alliance
19 September 2011 | 16h10