Bisphenol A has made front page news again, and this time the concern is over bisphenol A found in cans of pop and energy drinks.
Recently, a study conducted by Health Canada found bisphenol A in 96 percent of all of the drink cans tested, including carbonated, non-carbonated, diet, non-diet, fruit-flavoured and energy drinks.
You might have seen the story in the Globe and Mail, on CTV National News and in many other media outlets across Canada.
It was because of your support, along with other Environmental Defence supporters, that Environmental Defence was able to get bisphenol A banned from hard plastic baby bottles last year.
At that time, we also called on the federal government to ban bisphenol A in pop cans, food cans and all other food and beverage containers; but the government did not think it was an issue.
Now, with the spotlight on bisphenol A in drink cans, we need to use this momentum to get rid of the harmful chemical in cans that many children drink from every day.
We need your help to do that. Today please add your voice to the growing demand for government action. We need you to:
Write and email the Ministers of the Environment and Health by following this link:
http://petition.environmentaldefence.ca/bpa_in_drink.../
Let them know that you want all food and beverage containers to be free of bisphenol A. We know the potential dangers of bisphenol A. International organizations, expert panels and more than 150 peer-reviewed studies have associated bisphenol A with a variety of health problems (obesity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, breast cancer and a wide range of developmental problems), often at surprisingly low levels of exposure.