A Health Canada study has determined that enough Bisphenol A was found in canned soft and energy drinks to potentially harm children, especially those who consumed large quantities of pop. The levels are considered low for adults, but the chemical was found in nearly every soft drink that was tested. Levels were higher in energy drinks.
The study was the first comprehensive testing program of canned drinks in Canada. It was released in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in January of 2009 and has been downplayed by Health Canada as being below “acceptable” levels. Environmentalists argue that the math doesn’t quite work out for kids, who have less of a body mass and tend to consume more of these drinks than adults do.
Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri and an expert on BPA, calls Health Canada’s acceptable levels of the chemical “far too high”. Another expert claimed that the amounts of Bisphenol A found in soft drink cans is enough to have “significant biological effects”.
Our solution? Definitely no more energy drinks and no more canned pop. It always tasted better in glass anyway!
More over at CTV.ca and CBC.ca.
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