Interestingly enough, Ball/Jarden also makes lining for "tin " cans
without BPA, but only for some of its customers (Eden). So they know
how to function with and without BPA.
I fear that the widespread allergies to latex--some synthetic, some
from natural rubber--probably means the lawyers will nix going back to
old canning rings, which at some point were rubber.
And its not just canning lids: inside caps on soda an beer bottles,
all kinds of food containers have soft plastic which I suspect has BPA.
We should start insisting that food retailer let their suppliers know
that customers want BPA and phthalate AND ANY OTHER TOXIC MATERIAL out
of our food containers.
I recently wrote Wegman's to find out if the GOlden Harvest (owned by
Ball/Jarden) sun tea jars have BPS in their soft spigots. I was told
they do not, but this post makes me a little nervous. The jars are
glass; the lids are #5 polypropelene, both of which are GRAS, but the
spigot has soft something inside it . . . they didn't say what it was,
just that the jar does not have BPA or phthalates in it. Maybe they
think the spigot doesn't count?
Many, many products at Greenstar seem likely to have BPA or phthalates
in them, including those little product labels on fruits and veggies,
many of which seem to be vinyl. I recently found one on some
"organic" compost I bought.
Margaret
On Jul 29, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Kristie wrote:
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.
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