Do they still manufacture the glass top jars with rubber rings? The rubber probably has a lot of toxins in it as well, but there is at least a rim of glass between the rubber and the contents. George
--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Kristie <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kristie <[email protected]> Subject: [SustainableTompkins] BPA in home canning lids To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:26 PM Hi to any fellow canners out there, I've been doing some research on what food containers do and do not contain BPA, and was pretty annoyed to find it's in Ball canning lids. Please send an email to the parent company, Jarden (which seems to make all canning lids on the market, Ball, Kerr, etc -- as far as I can tell, there are no BPA-free alternatives), at http://www.freshpreserving.com/pages/contact_us/10.php asking them to come up with a BPA-free version! Wishing we didn't live in a world so infiltrated with toxins that you have to worry about your own, home-canned food... -Kristie PS Please pass along to other canners! Maybe they will come up with an alternative if they hear from enough of us. _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
