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Frequent Soup Eaters Have 1,000% Increase of BPA

So you’ve ditched your BPA laden Nalgene bottle for a BPA-free version and thought you were all set. Not so. A new report is saying that if you’re among the many who bring a can of soup to work for a convenient, quick lunch — and perhaps really any canned food item that is — you could be significantly upping the levels of bisphenol-A in your system.

First Study to Quantify BPA After Ingestion Marks Elevated Levels of BPA in Urine After Eating Canned Food ItemsIn the first study to evaluate BPA levels in humans after ingesting canned food items, the Harvard School of Public Health found a more than 1,000 percent increase in urinary BPA levels among those who ate canned soup regularly.

The study included 75 people, half of whom consumed a 12-ounce serving of vegetarian canned soup each day for five days, while the other half consumed 12 ounces of vegetarian fresh soup (prepared without canned ingredients). After a two-day “washout” period, the groups reversed their assignments.

The researchers say that elevation of BPA levels may be temporary and reversible, but more research is needed to confirm this.

“The magnitude of the rise in urinary BPA we observed after just one serving of soup was unexpected and may be of concern among individuals who regularly consume foods from cans or drink several canned beverages daily. It may be advisable for manufacturers to consider eliminating BPA from can linings,” said Michels, senior author of the study, in a news release.

NPR reports that concern over BPA is the potential for it to act like estrogen, affecting the sexual development of animals in several studies. But the levels we are usually exposed to, NPR notes, is considered acceptable by agencies like the FDA and EPA:

Michels says she can‘t comment on the health implications of the finding because that wasn’t part of the study. Even so, she says, food makers might want to consider eliminating BPA from can linings.

But industry groups say it’s not easy to find a safe, affordable and effective substitute for BPA in can linings. An analysis by the North American Metal Packaging Alliance (NAMPA) found that epoxy resins had significant advantages over the alternatives.

Previous research has been conducted to evaluate BPA levels in actual products. Recently, the Breast Cancer Fund conducted research on several canned food items marked to children and found that all had BPA in the lining of the cans. Here’s more info from Jeanne Rizzo, president and CEO of the Breast Cancer Fund, on this report and how it relates to children as an endocrine-distrupting hormone:

The research was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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  • Veritas
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:20am

    More “garbage knowledge”! Who cares? This is just another group trying to build a case for the government to step into our lives. I will guarantee that no soup company wants to kill off the people that buy their food. If there was a real threat, it would not be on the shelves now!!

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    • red_white_blue2
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:28am

      Agreed. All this is going to lead to is more brain dead zombie’s calling for big daddy to step in with regulations to protect them. This will only drive the cost of the foods higher, and then they’ll be complaining about that. There’s no winning!

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    • greensteam
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:39pm

      bpa is in the cans to make the cans safer, however for cost reasons the benefits are outweighed with one huge downside. you guys may not realize that bpa was invented to be an aritificial estrogen alternative. when it was proven as harmful or worse than typical estrogen pill(which caused massive amounts of breast cancer in the ’70s) they scrapped it. later they found out it works well in can liner and bottle plastics for some reason. it is harmful, not some hoax to get government more control. they started removing the plastic containing it from baby bottles a couple years ago. bpa is essentially a poison but since they believed without studying it that the substance stayed out of the food it must be ok. all independant tests have shown it is making it into the food and it is harmful. flouride is a poison if consumed also, but they still put that into many drinking water systems. this is what the fda and usda and epa do. this is why so many republicans talk about eliminating so many sectors of govt. they are corrupt.

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    • Marylou7
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Am addicted to Campbells Chicken Noodle soup and will not stop eating it. Control is what it’s all about. My stomach is my business and I love soup.

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    • WalkSoft
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 11:46pm

      They can buy what ever they want! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6YsakFE5J5g

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  • Guitar Master
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:14am

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    From THE PROFESSOR
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    TOPIC: Coincidence or Conspiracy

    It seems a huge coincidence that all of a sudden a study reveals that eating anything in a can (soup) is bad for you.

    One of the most popular means of storing food is through the use of “CANNED” foods. Mmmmm ! Could it be that someone is trying to discourage the public from buying canned goods?

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    • sourdoughboy
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:24am

      We all know that all canned food is processed and all processed food is bad for you…na.na.na.na.nany state! Is that you Michelle Obama?

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    • PROUD SOB
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:11am

      Exactly no storage of food before shortage coming soon!

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  • V-MAN MACE
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:12am

    Anybody heard about Fukashima being at full meltdown and melting through the earth with no slowdown in sight?

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  • InversionTheory
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:09am

    The whole thing sounds fishy. A little research will show that there’s no real agreement as to what levels are safe…this….”1,000% greater” bit doesn’t really tell you much. The EPA currently considers 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day to be acceptable. The article doesn’t address what levels they found — And I’m not paying the $30 to get access to the full original article to find out. The studies I was able to find with a google search only seem to address potential health effects in humans. results of animal studies have been mixed both in what levels are safe and whether there’s any effects at all. How can people make a rational decision with facts obscured or omitted? Beats me, but I’m gonna go have a can of soup and mull it over.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:51am

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      How have I survived this long without knowing the danger of BPA?
      I never heard of BPA, but since it has three letters, I assume the gub’ment is involved.
      You know, TSA, CIA, NEA, AFL-CIO, EPA, DHS.
      Now, BPA. Yawn. Tomorrow, there will be a new study that you need mare BPA or you’ll die.

      Looking for places to cut the budget? Stop funding crap like this.

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    • InversionTheory
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:00am

      Notice how they keep saying “may cause” … This is the BIG tip-off that they haven’t got a conclusive link.

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    • MikeWinVA
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:13am

      Sounds like another alar “scare”.

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:30am

      “May have caused”, means that hotdog I ate at the county fair in 1954, caused my cancer in 2000. Who knew? The movie, “The boy in the striped pajamas” is playing on my tv and what happened then “may cause” the elimination of a race of people in the near future. This is a real cause!!

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  • cosmic dogma
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:30pm

    Campbells must not have sent in their “rent” to the thugs.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:06am

      And here I am getting ready to make my green bean casserole for tomorrow .. didn’t know one of the ingredients was BPA — yup somebody didn’t get his kick back!

      TEA!

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  • Alan
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:20pm

    The professional busybodies in the world strike again.

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  • WAKEUPUSA2012
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:16pm

    This is the elites main goal. they are populition freaks and want to control it. They know BPA lowers fertility rates. they get their punchs in when we are young with to many vaccine shots flouride and BPA. their are softkill weapons built into are daily lives. we live in a totalitarian socitey.

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    • V-MAN MACE
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:09am

      BPA + fluoride + men = Your penis atrophies into a clitoris, your testicles retreat into your stomach, you develop “cleft scrotum”, then you grow breasts and start losing facial hair and other masculine characteristics…

      BPA + fluoride + women = Land of the Amazons

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  • jarcam14
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 10:27pm

    What the study fails to mention is that five hours later, there is zero BPA in your body. Your body processes all of it. If your body doesn’t absorb it, it can’t hurt you. For God’s sake, the EPA of all places came out and refuted these studies. The first tests on BPA were done by directly injecting abnormally (and unrealistic) high levels of BPA directly into the brain and bloodstream of rats. That study has never been duplicated. BPA is used in the linings of canned foods, canned beverages, and the linings of the pipes that bring the water to your homes. It is in the epoxy lining that we have been using for more than 40 years! You’ll notice that none of these studies say that “BPA causes x, y or z..” they say it may contribute or may cause. Why? they have no clue what causes prostate cancer. It isn’t BPA! Interesting fact, the trial lawyers association is the key funders of these “studies” If they can get ConAgra or some other company to say BPA is or was bad, they’ll be able to sue every company out there. The governments like Connecticut are putting their people at far greater risk on an untested, unproven coating system just so they can avoid NOTHING!! Also, if you look at the number of cases of e-coli, botulism, etc., you’ll notice they all come from the fresh or frozen side. Canned food remains the safest most cost effective means of delivering healthy food at a cheap price with a long shelf life. Follow the money… trial lawyers.

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    • Large Eagle
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:09pm

      Another government ploy to keep you from preparing for the coming insurrection. Make it bad and then the next thing you know they will be confiscating it and storing it in big warehouse so to protect us all. Food for the elitist when the fecal matter hits the oscillating wind device.

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    • TADTAD
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:41pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM&feature=related

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    • KangarooJack
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 11:50pm

      I absolutely love the 75 participants in this study. This sounds like a study I did back in College. You can “BS” the control group stats in order to further your….ah, er…hey,? There wasn’t a control group in this study, was there??? lol

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    • PROUD SOB
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:18am

      Large Eagle your right on the money!!!

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    • trueblueday
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:38pm

      Thanks for the information!

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  • Delores at CH WV
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 10:05pm

    I don’t care for such small, unique age testing samples that only use one type of soup. Take the Campbell brand out of this story because they didn’t use this brand. Also, why use just one soup brand, why use this age group? I would bet that senior citizens eat more canned soups than this age group used in this test. I personally fix my own soups; however, a quick can of chicken noodle or tomato soup when you are ill usually helps you survive the flu or common colds because of the salt level in canned foods. I was not impressed with this study. I mostly use fresh foods first, frozen, second, and sometimes open a can of beans. If these folks want me to pay attention to this study, they need to open the age groups and test other canned foods. Adults used in this study usually don’t eat a healthy diet; on the whole, I doubt they ever open a can of soup when a drive thru is more their livestyle. Since they only ate the soup with lunch, what did they eat for breakfast and dinner, snacks? Maybe they are eating or drinking some other item that is giving them high levels of BPA.

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  • MrKnowItAll
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:49pm

    I’m 50 now. When I was 14 I worked on a milk truck with a old guy who couldn’t get up in the truck anymore but had to work another two years to get $550.00 extra a month in retirement. So he paid me $15.00 a day to get in the truck all day. What I took from it was him telling me to eat a bowl of soup everyday and I would never have stomach problems. He was 100% correct so far. Why are they confusing canned items with SOUP? They don’t want you to be healthy.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:30pm

    I did a study and found that over 99% of people who die had something to eat in the previous 24 hrs. I smell Pulitzer Prize.

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  • Freedom_2012
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:47pm

    So the EPA turns a blind eye to this and arsenic in chicken feed? But yet they are concerned with natural herbs? What are they good for?

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:19pm

      Driving the cost of everything in this country throught the roof through needless and illegal regulation. Other than that, not sure.

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  • Miami
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:47pm

    Yeah and cell phones cause brain damage, CO2 warms the earth and silicone breast implants cause cancer. Just one thing though., NO one has shown any case of brain damage or slilcone caused breast cancer and as for Global temperature has been dropping since the hockey stick theory hit the screen. Ops…

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    • John 1776
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:42pm

      Always found it ironic they called it a “Hockey Stick” graph.
      After all, you use that stick in ICE HOCKEY!

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:36pm

    I gave up all food three years ago. Everything is bad for you. I now feed only off the ever-changing garbage emanating from the mouths of liberals.

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    • UrsaMajor
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:33pm

      I gave up the apples because of alar.
      I gave up eggs because of the bad cholesterol.
      I gave up movie theatre popcorn because of the coconut oil.
      I started eating eggs again because of the GOOD cholestreol.
      I gave up tuna because of the dolphins.
      I gave up eggs again because of the REALLY BAD, AND WE MEAN IT THIS TIME cholestreol.

      Chicken and Stars soup was all I had left.
      …
      … it was all I had left….

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    • skitrees
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 10:02pm

      UrsaMajor: One of the funniest posts I’ve read to date – thank you for that! It was a great heart-lightening read on Thanksgiving eve! Thank you for that!

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  • pjmarshake
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:22pm

    Of course… Now that people are starting to prepare by stockpiling food, threre has to be something to scare everyone away from it.

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  • conservativewoman
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 8:21pm

    The average life span in the middle-ages was 35. In most industrialized countries the average is now 80 and increasing. I think we are doing okay with our food intake. Remember, everything in perspective.

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    • endgamer
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 10:23pm

      We would probably have a lifespan of 150+ years if they took the crap out of the food.. Think of the trouble social security would be in then!!

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:39pm

    Just Drink salt water.Same thing as can soup.

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  • MaryRI
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:20pm

    hey Harvard…take your studies and your “so called bright” students and go the the “double hockey sticks” place……..nothing but trash coming out of you institution any way

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  • endgamer
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:04pm

    It also causes prostate problems, prostate cancer & reproductive issues.. According to Eurekalert:
    “These findings … may portend adverse BPA effects beyond the male reproductive system. Semen quality and male sexual dysfunction could be more sensitive early indicators for adverse BPA effects than other disease endpoints that are more difficult to study, such as cancer or metabolic diseases.”

    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/03/25/even-bpafree-plastics-leach-endrocrinedisrupting-chemicals.aspx

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:03pm

    Oh great! I’ve been stocking up on food for the last 1 1/2 years; mostly canned foods and soups. I have about 6+ month’s supply for 2 people and now this! This can’t be a coincidence. Oh well, I may die from BPA’s but at least I won’t starve to death.

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  • anotherGlen
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:03pm

    Of course, the researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health could not determine if the results from this study were conclusive. They will need millions of dollars and several more years of more studies to determine that they need more grants and several more years to come to an inconclusive conclusion. Then they will be experts in this field and be able to obtain government jobs to further study this subject. Then, they can do outside consulting to the soup and can companies and verify that the products are completely safe. What a racket.

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  • RedBoggan
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:02pm

    I saw ABC’s report on this last night, and someone they interviewed essentially said, “it’s probably best to stick with fresh and frozen foods.” Now, I‘m not saying that there’s nothing to this BPA concern, but the timing of it seems a little weird considering that most people’s “long-term food storage” is tied up in cans. Fresh and frozen food won’t last too long if food and energy supplies dwindle, and I’d hate to think that some people might be throwing their cans out (or not stocking up as they should) because of scary BPA research.

    Thoughts?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 7:04pm

      If I freeze my supply of canned soups…. would that help? LOL

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    • Utahcatholic
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:09pm

      Go with freeze-dried instead of canned food for long term food storage. There are several brands available here in Utah. The MREs the military use are also freeze dried. The quailty is far superior to canned foods. They are more expensive.

      When I was in Louisiana after Katrina with the Red Cross, we distributed MREs(Meals Ready to Eat) to the evacuees by the thousands. I tried a few and was pleasantly surprised, way better than canned crap.

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    • UrsaMajor
      Posted on November 23, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Funny how most of the food poisoning outbreaks (including several deaths) the last few years have come from “fresh” foods.

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    • trueblueday
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Remember when the BPA concerns came out about plastic storage tubs? Prices plummeted on the stuff. If there’s a scare on BPA soup cans? I’m all for it. Time to stock up, people.

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  • Susie
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 6:53pm

    After all this I am not sure exactly what harm BPA is to me.
    Perhaps someone could explain it to me so I can develop this new phobia right away.

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  • frust@ted
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 6:40pm

    I love how in the three minute anti BPA pitch by the Brest Cancer Fund they made sure that you know that a good way to help prevent this terrible cancer causing chemical from your food was to donate to them. I wouldn’t donate a dime to this group.

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  • Omnivore
    Posted on November 23, 2011 at 6:24pm

    Yeah; we must have our weekly food scare. I get it already.

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