Coca-Cola has rejected calls to eliminate a controversial hormone disrupter in its canned soft drinks despite facing mounting pressure from its shareholders..
Though 26 percent of its investors voted in favor of looking into packaging alternatives to bisphenol A (BPA) – a hormone disrupting agent used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins – the company maintained there wasn’t enough scientific consensus to warrant a system-wide change in its packaging, reports food industry site FoodQualitynews.com..
BPA is a hormone disrupter as it mimics estrogen and is commonly found in hard-shelled plastic bottles, milk containers and canned food linings. The coating guards against contamination and extends the shelf life of foods.
Some studies suggest that BPA can affect reproductivity, fertility and development.
Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on Bisphenol A (BPA)
This scorecard reviews how leading packaged food companies are responding to increased consumer and investor concern about BPA. Seeking Safer Packaging ranks companies on three factors: 1) efforts to find and implement alternatives to BPA, 2) plans to phase out BPA in products for which alternatives exist, and 3) transparency on the issue.
The scorecard is accompanied by an introduction to health concerns linked to BPA exposure, the changing regulatory climate related to BPA, and studies of companies that have voluntarily removed the chemical from their products.
http://environmentaldefence.ca/campaigns/toxic-nation/tips-and-guides
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riel concludes that they are really just covering their butts:
It’s possible that Coca-Cola has asserted its position on BPA so many times that it’s fearful of what will happen if it reverses. And it’s true, basically admitting they’ve been poisoning us all these years might not go over so well. But that still won’t make it any less true.
But it is much more complicated than that.
Fast Company alludes to the fact that “the substance has been banned in baby bottles in Europe, Canada, and even China, where the toothpaste can kill you.” But that is BPA used in the manufacture of polycarbonates; Coke cans are lined with BPA used in the manufacture of epoxy. Without an epoxy lining, the canned pop tastes unpleasantly metallic. And while a lot of companies are LOOKING for alternatives to BPA (as there were in polycarbonates) there are not very many that have been found, they do not work as well for acidic products, they are not yet really well tested for safety, and they are not as cheap.Even Heinz, which Fast Company credits with paying attention to the issue, says little more on their product safety statement than the Coke spokesman did:
Although scientific bodies worldwide have concluded that minute levels of BPA are safe, Heinz is proactively exploring alternatives to BPA in response to consumer opinion.
Everybody is, including Coke. But as they point out in the chemical journal ICIS.com,
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/the-real-reason-coke-isnt-ditching-bpa.php?campaign=th_rss
Effect of Coca Cola on your body
In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: First effect of coca colaon your body. Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (Theres plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This effect of coca cola is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
http://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/the-effect-of-coca-cola-on-your-body.html
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