Major organizations support BPA in food and drink

[imurhuckleberry]

The following organizations all have one thing in common - they all want BPA in your food and drinks.

* American Chemistry Council
* American Electronics Association
* California Chamber of Commerce
* California Grocers Association
* California League of Food Processors
* California Manufacturers and Technology Association
* California Retailers Association
* Food Products Association
* Grocery Manufacturers of America
* International Bottled Water Association
* Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association
* Metal Container Corp.
* Phthalate Esters Panel
* The Society of the Plastics Industry
* Toy Industry Association


The Washington Post recently covered the new food safety bill on the table, a bill that was already passed overwhelmingly by the House last year and would hopefully make food safer for everyone. Basically the bill would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) better regulatory authority over food production and place greater responsibility on manufacturers and farmers to produce food free from contamination. However, all of the above organizations refuse to back the bill up because of one of the bill’s proposed amendments which would ban BPA from food and beverage containers.

The Post notes that Scott Faber, vice president for federal affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents food companies and retailers says…


“We will not support food safety legislation that bans or phases out BPA from any food and beverage container.”

more: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/A3rXgU/www.greenoptions.com/forum/thread/2658/major-organizations-support-bpa-in-food-and-drink

[NYC_SKP]

1. Bisphenol_A

Bisphenol A, commonly abbreviated as BPA, is an organic compound with two phenol functional groups. It is a difunctional building block of several important plastics and plastic additives.

Suspected of being hazardous to humans since the 1930s, concerns about the use of bisphenol A in consumer products were regularly reported in the news media in 2008 after several governments issued reports questioning its safety, and some retailers have removed products containing it from their shelves. A 2010 report from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raised further concerns regarding exposure of fetuses, infants, and young children.<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

[HillbillyBob]

2. USDA/FDA must preserve the 'right' to profit instead of our health.

Drink water theres a thing in the kitchen that you turn and get water from the city or well(we have a well) with filter you save $ and bpas in your water bottles..I have some big cups that I carry around with me all the time and a stainless metal carry along water bottle. Not a total tree hugger, but do our best to not use plastic bags. We don't have or need a water filter here, but in town I had one for under the sink to get rid of the chlorine.

I have been on the clean up my act and become greener, learning a new behavior, such as remembering to put the canvas shopping bags back in the car after emptying them. It takes a bit to get used to, once I get that new habit down move on to something else.
We quit buying bottled water about 8 years ago realising that BPA thing and that most places where we lived would not take them as recycle at that time.
If we have a storm coming that may knock out the power we draw some in jugs left over milk or distilled water jugs that partner needs for medical use. I would like to set up a way to distil water with a solar set up. We have mostly coal generated power here and we have cut our power usage by 3/4 over the last few years. Mostly by efficiency measures mostly small projects that take a few hours and cost less than $50-100.

[glowing]

3. I'm not even sure why they really care.. If BPA is banned and it will cost more

for less harm, they will just pass the cost onto the consumer... Its like they want to kill us.. or cause more disease, since pharma will do well.. and most drugs use oil to be produced.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. They care because they want as few limitations on their businesses as possible.

Hell, some corporations would cheer if the government tossed out all health and safety regulations.

[fasttense]

5. Yeah, I never understood why corporations would rather slowly poison us

to death and charge us less, than to NOT poison us and charge us more.

It's like customers are merely giant lab rats to them.

But that's one of the reason's Farmer's Markets are so popular. Most local farmers charge less to NOT poison their customers.

[glowing]

6. And most Food Safety bills try to infringe upon the Farmer's Market or local produce stands

People want safety from the big corp. farmers who do the most harm, but the bill writers are inside Monsanto/ ADM types who create loopholes for themselves and make it harder for people to produce and buy organic foods. Quite disgusting how this govt really appears to be more of a fascist state than a Democratic Republic supposedly run by the people.

[Karenina]

7. Volume, baby VOLUME! Pump it up! n/t

[CrispyQ]

8. Corporate long term vision doesn't extend past next quarter.

If we don't rein these behemoths in, they're going to be the demise of all of us.