BPA in canning jars

[Guest guest]

Yes, I read that article too. I guess no canning options are completely safe. I'm glad to hear about Weck's, at least there is SOME alternative. I don't know how hard they are to get ahold of-if I ever start canning, I'll definitely look into Wecks. Thanks for passing on the info, I meant to do it but forgot.

 

cyndi

 

 

In a message dated 11/8/2009 4:27:33 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, FirstYrs08 writes:

I read this article in "Organic Gardening" (Nov-Jan 009, pg 16) and was surprised to hear it! Q: Do you know if the coating on meal lids on some types of canning jars contains bispenol-A?A: Canning jar lids from the brands Ball, Kerr, Golden Harvest, and Bernandin ARE coated with BPA - an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics and the epoxy resins that line many food containers. BPA is an estrogenic chemical - meaning it can mimic the hormone estrogen - and a wide body of research links it to an increased risk for reproductive and developmental problems, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Most human exposre to BPA comes through te diet because the chemical can leach into canned foods that come into contact with the epoxy resin coating. "If the lid doesn't contact the food, it's not a problem," says Fredierick vom Sall, PHD, a curators' professor of bilogical sciences who studies endocrine disruptors at the University of Missouri - Columbia. But in food preserving, that's unlikely to be the case, so vom Saal says it's best to use a BPA-free product. For example, German-made Weck canning jars use glass lids, rubber rings, and metal clasps to seal the jars rather than metal lids. Weck supplies are available online at weckcanning.com.

[Guest guest]

I love to dehydrate! I have bags and bags of dehydrated foods everywhere, lol. For tomato paste, you can do two things-one, you can dehydrate tomato slices, and then grind them up in the food processor. The powder can be used as a thickener like tomato paste. And two, you can take your tomato powder, add a little water to make a thick paste, and then spread the paste out onto a paraflexx sheet or baggie back into the dehydrator and you will then have a dried tomato "rollup" that you can break off pieces of and use as tomato paste.

 

Cyndi

 

 

In a message dated 11/8/2009 4:43:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, kellmar98 writes:

 

 

 

 

This has actually hit the mainstream media too as of recently. A friend of mine has been talking about it for years. I am in the process of getting rid of all canned goods......coming up with alternatives. I do not can. I instead dehydrate as a means of preserving food. My biggest problem is tomato paste actually.......can't find a good alternative for it that is not in a can. We eat mostly fresh vegetables and whole foods, so not a lot of cans in our house anyway. Also we do not use our microwave......well I don't, my hubby is another story, but for the kids and I, I don't use the microwave because I have concerns about heating plastic and what the microwave does to the food anyway. Kelly--- On Sun, 11/8/09, frstyrs08 <FirstYrs08 (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote:

frstyrs08 <FirstYrs08 (AT) cox (DOT) net>[RFSL] BPA in canning jars Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 7:26 PM

I read this article in "Organic Gardening" (Nov-Jan 009, pg 16) and was surprised to hear it! Q: Do you know if the coating on meal lids on some types of canning jars contains bispenol-A?A: Canning jar lids from the brands Ball, Kerr, Golden Harvest, and Bernandin ARE coated with BPA - an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics and the epoxy resins that line many food containers. BPA is an estrogenic chemical - meaning it can mimic the hormone estrogen - and a wide body of research links it to an increased risk for reproductive and developmental problems, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Most human exposre to BPA comes through te diet because the chemical can leach into canned foods that come into contact with the epoxy resin coating. "If the lid doesn't contact the food, it's not a problem," says Fredierick vom Sall, PHD, a curators' professor of bilogical sciences who studies endocrine disruptors at the University of Missouri - Columbia. But in food preserving, that's unlikely to be the case, so vom Saal says it's best to use a BPA-free product. For example, German-made Weck canning jars use glass lids, rubber rings, and metal clasps to seal the jars rather than metal lids. Weck supplies are available online at weckcanning. com.

[Guest guest]

I read this article in " Organic Gardening " (Nov-Jan 009, pg 16) and was

surprised to hear it!

 

Q: Do you know if the coating on meal lids on some types of canning jars

contains bispenol-A?

 

A: Canning jar lids from the brands Ball, Kerr, Golden Harvest, and Bernandin

ARE coated with BPA - an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics

and the epoxy resins that line many food containers. BPA is an estrogenic

chemical - meaning it can mimic the hormone estrogen - and a wide body of

research links it to an increased risk for reproductive and developmental

problems, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Most human exposre to BPA comes

through te diet because the chemical can leach into canned foods that come into

contact with the epoxy resin coating.

 

" If the lid doesn't contact the food, it's not a problem, " says Fredierick vom

Sall, PHD, a curators' professor of bilogical sciences who studies endocrine

disruptors at the University of Missouri - Columbia. But in food preserving,

that's unlikely to be the case, so vom Saal says it's best to use a BPA-free

product. For example, German-made Weck canning jars use glass lids, rubber

rings, and metal clasps to seal the jars rather than metal lids. Weck supplies

are available online at weckcanning.com.

[Guest guest]

This has actually hit the mainstream media too as of recently. A friend of mine has been talking about it for years. I am in the process of getting rid of all canned goods......coming up with alternatives. I do not can. I instead dehydrate as a means of preserving food. My biggest problem is tomato paste actually.......can't find a good alternative for it that is not in a can. We eat mostly fresh vegetables and whole foods, so not a lot of cans in our house anyway. Also we do not use our microwave......well I don't, my hubby is another story, but for the kids and I, I don't use the microwave because I have concerns about heating plastic and what the microwave does to the food anyway. Kelly--- On Sun, 11/8/09, frstyrs08 <FirstYrs08 wrote:frstyrs08 <FirstYrs08[RFSL] BPA in canning jars Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 7:26 PM

 

 

I read this article in "Organic Gardening" (Nov-Jan 009, pg 16) and was surprised to hear it!

 

Q: Do you know if the coating on meal lids on some types of canning jars contains bispenol-A?

 

A: Canning jar lids from the brands Ball, Kerr, Golden Harvest, and Bernandin ARE coated with BPA - an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastics and the epoxy resins that line many food containers. BPA is an estrogenic chemical - meaning it can mimic the hormone estrogen - and a wide body of research links it to an increased risk for reproductive and developmental problems, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Most human exposre to BPA comes through te diet because the chemical can leach into canned foods that come into contact with the epoxy resin coating.

 

"If the lid doesn't contact the food, it's not a problem," says Fredierick vom Sall, PHD, a curators' professor of bilogical sciences who studies endocrine disruptors at the University of Missouri - Columbia. But in food preserving, that's unlikely to be the case, so vom Saal says it's best to use a BPA-free product. For example, German-made Weck canning jars use glass lids, rubber rings, and metal clasps to seal the jars rather than metal lids. Weck supplies are available online at weckcanning. com.