Cans Not Cancer
The Breast Cancer Fund has launched a market campaign to get BPA—an estrogenic chemical linked in lab studies to increased breast cancer risk—out of canned foods. Cans Not Cancer aims to convince canned food manufacturers to replace BPA in their cans with a safe alternative that's not linked to disease.
Our Cans Not Cancer campaign is about your health, our children's health, and a safer future in which breast cancer rates have dropped because we've reduced our exposure to toxic chemicals. Join the campaign!
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Report: BPA in Thanksgiving Canned Food
An unwelcome visitor may be joining your Thanksgiving feast: BPA.
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Report: BPA in Kids' Canned Food
We tested six canned foods marketed to kids and found BPA in all of them.
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Support a Federal Ban on BPA in Food
Ask Congress to support the Ban Poisonous Additives Act.
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The Backstory on BPA
What are governments, companies and consumers doing to get BPA out of food containers and packaging?
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04.18.12
If the food's in plastic, what's in the food? (Washington Post, 4/16/2012)
Scientists are beginning to piece together data about the ubiquity of chemicals in the food supply and what they're finding has some health advocates worried.
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03.30.12
FDA Won't Ban BPA Chemical in Packaging (ABC News, 3/30/12)
As we've been reporting, we've been waiting (and waiting) for the FDA to respond to a 2008 petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council to declare the toxic chemical BPA unsafe and ban it from food packaging.
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03.16.12
Pressure increases on FDA to ban BPA from food packaging
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must be feeling the pressure to do something about BPA pretty intensely right now. And right it should.
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03.07.12
Under Pressure from Parents, Advocacy Groups, Campbell's Goes BPA-Free (Forbes, 3/5/12)
On Monday, we shared the news that our Cans Not Cancer campaign scored a huge victory: After months of pressure from our campaign, Campbell's Soup Company announced it will phase out the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in its can linings.
