Campbell's soup cans to drop hormone-mimicking chemical
by Arthur Neslen from Environment | The Guardian on (#1907M)
The iconic US soup maker will stop using Bisphenol-A by 2017, after the chemical was found in all 15 of its cans tested in a US survey
The iconic US soup manufacturer, Campbell's, has said that it will stop using Bisphenol-A (BPA) in cans by mid-2017, after the hormone-mimicking chemical was found in all 15 of its cans tested in a US survey.
Two-thirds of the nearly 200 food containers analysed by the Ecology Centre in Michigan were found to contain BPA, with 70% of Del Monte tins testing positive and other companies' tins turning in similar results. The endocrine disruptor was also found in tests of all three 'Carnation' tins by Nestle.
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