The company also sources its seafood sustainably, including details of harvesting practices and locations. Wild Planet offers most of its products in recyclable cans, but some products are packaged in plastic pouches. These are not currently recyclable but the company is currently developing a new format of recyclable, single-serving packaging.
Muir Glen are tomato specialists, but while other brands still cling to their BPA linings for these acidic foodstuffs, this company has gone entirely BPA-free. These tomatoes are field-grown and vine-ripened and, I have to say, absolutely delicious! Muir Glen also strives for long-term partnerships with farmers, encouraging better working conditions, practices, and financial sustainability. Highlights: Well respected company with a history of fair trade and sustainable practices, offering canned goods without BPA linings and with stringent third-party testing.
The company recognizes that BPA is present in the environment and that this means it may be disingenuous to claim that a product is BPA-free, even if no BPA is intentionally used in the cans. These include embracing fair trade, plant-based diets, and integrated pest management while promoting organic certification at their partner farms worldwide.
Eden Foods was another early adapter following concerning reports about BPA in the s. This involved significant and arduous negotiation with packaging manufacturers unwilling to divulge proprietary information about their use of BPA or to switch away from it. Oleoresin is a mixture of oil and plant resin extracted from pine or balsam fir trees.
In , the company switched all products to cans with a lining safe for both low acid and high acid foods, meaning that even tomato-based products are now in non-BPA cans. Nowadays, Eden Foods offers products in these much-improved cans and continues to offer some products packed in Tetrapaks and glass jars. The lids for the jars do have a coating made with BPA, but this is covered with a second coating without BPA that creates an effective barrier between the BPA and contact with food.
Highlights: Eco-minded seafood company with a robust Corporate Social Responsibility program and impressive carbon footprint reduction, offering sustainably caught fish products in cans made without intentionally added BPA. Crown Prince specializes in seafood, offering canned tuna, salmon, sardines, and other goods.
Crown Prince has been highly engaged in sustainability efforts for more than a decade. In , Crown Prince met that goal early, achieving a Crown Prince also measures Scope 3 emissions, going beyond typical tracking to include business travel, employee commuting, shipping and more. Why it's bad for babies and kids Babies and young children are most at risk because of their small body weight and rapid growth.
Tamara Galloway, professor of ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter in the UK, writes: "There seems to be so much evidence of low dose effects and the perception that some scientists have had is that the industry regulators have ignored their evidence. These steps include: supporting the industry's actions to stop producing BPA-containing baby bottles and infant feeding cups for the US market, facilitating the development of alternatives to BPA for the linings of infant formula cans, supporting efforts to replace BPA or minimise BPA levels in other food can linings.
What's the local industry doing? Look for BPA-free products. More and more BPA-free products have come to market. Look for products labelled as BPA-free. If a product isn't labelled, keep in mind that some, but not all, plastics marked with recycle codes 3 or 7 may be made with BPA. Cut back on cans. Reduce your use of canned foods, since most cans are lined with BPA-containing resin. Avoid heat. Experts advise against microwaving polycarbonate plastics or putting them in the dishwasher because the plastic may break down over time and allow BPA to leach into foods.
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Health advocates have praised Sherwin-Williams for its unique approach to lining development. Maricel Maffini, a Frederick, Maryland-based biologist and expert on toxic chemical issues, was hired on by the company as a consultant and published one of the studies. Gosia Wozniacka is a senior staff reporter with Civil Eats. She lives in Portland, Oregon. PCC has shared concerns about bisphenols with consumers at least since when we first began reporting concerns about these chemicals in Sound Consumer.
The NOP initiated the topic in but it has been on hold since Co-op standards, though, do not prohibit use of bisphenols, in part because packaging additives are not declared by manufacturers and frequently change and in part because, as noted above, many canned foods manufacturers now use alternative linings.
EWG offers a searchable database online of food and drinks packaged in materials that may contain BPA. Find it here.
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