[HN Gopher] To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company team... ___________________________________________________________________ To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies Author : laurex Score : 50 points Date : 2020-01-23 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.sciencemag.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencemag.org) | mjevans wrote: | As a consumer, how can I even tell if a can is using a coating | and/or this coating? I had no idea the INSIDE wasn't aluminum | with the 'usual' hydrogen ion layer. | | "... sell its coating in the United States, branded as valPure | V70. It has been used in 22 billion cans since 2017. That's a | modest fraction of the estimated 350 billion aluminum beverage | cans and 100 billion steel food cans produced each year | worldwide." | | I'd prefer to use these cans over the BPA alternative. | zweep wrote: | All aluminum cans are coated or you'd get aluminum oxides into | your food. | chadcmulligan wrote: | Here's a video of removing the aluminium from the insert | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHFQoFoxvQ [video] | post_below wrote: | Almost all aluminum cans for food products are coated. You can | safely assume there's a coating of some kind. Some brands print | "BPA free" on their cans. At this point that's the only | information available to consumers. | stevenwoo wrote: | If you are in the USA, Libby | https://www.senecafoods.com/valpure also this might be | acceptable (they name acrylic as the liner and Valpure is | acrylic but they never say what is the liner) | https://www.amys.com/faqs/is-your-can-lining-non-bpa | ghastmaster wrote: | I cannot find my source, but even BPA free means they just coat | it with BPS which is structurally and functionally similar. I | suspect the toxicity studies just have not been done yet. | | I have a friend who used to work in the coatings lab for PPG | circa 2007. He had a handful of chemicals to choose from that | he would blend and test until the outcome fit the manufacturing | requirements. It was not tested for toxicity before it was sent | on to manufacturers and into your soda/veggie can. | James_Henry wrote: | This article is about TMBPF, a BPF, not a BPS. It is also | structurally similar to BPA and the article is all about the | struggle to effectively determine whether it is safe (and how | this struggle has been very open which according to the | article is not common for chemical companies). Many toxicity | studies have been done and seem promising. | unhashable wrote: | Avoid plastics. Any move away from BPA is merely rebranding. | | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-23 23:00 UTC)