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It’s the state’s arguments about BPA and canned vegetables in so-called food deserts - neighborhoods too poor to attract top grocery chains - that offend the community groups. That would give can manufacturers more time to label their cans and to see what ongoing medical studies find regarding safe and unsafe levels of the chemicals, Hirsch said.
State officials foresee requiring more specific notices after perhaps a year. Rather than require warnings for specific cans and other goods when the warning-requirement kicks in in May, the state plans to make merchants place general notices saying some cans for sale in the store have BPA. Kathleen Roberts, executive director of the can industry’s North American Metal Packaging Alliance, said Thursday that confusion “from these warning signs could further limit healthy choices, particularly for low-income families in inner-city neighborhoods and rural communities.” Hirsch also acknowledged hearing “some concern from retailers” about how the warning is going to work. That’s certainly better than not having access to them,” the state official said. “We would want to make sure that people, especially in low-income communities, still have access to canned fruits and vegetables. by just pulling canned and bottled foods off their shelves entirely,” which would be bad news in neighborhoods without good grocery stores. Ordinarily, the state would either require manufacturers to put those warnings on the cans, or make grocers post signs on canned-goods shelves specifically warning that “Brand X tomato sauce, Brand Y green beans” have the targeted chemical in the can, said Allan Hirsch, chief deputy director of the state EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.įor BPA, though, “we think that would be kind of chaotic,” the state official said. The federal agency also is awaiting the results of more studies. Food and Drug Administration banned BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups in 2012, but it says the level of BPA that leeches into food is safe otherwise. That 2015 decision by California is controversial. Some studies have determined the chemical was an estrogen-like substance that at high levels could harm the female reproductive system. Manufacturers use BPA in epoxy liners of some cans, bottles and jars. The warnings are coming on line in California under the state’s Proposition 65, a measure approved by voters in 1986 that requires businesses to notify the public about high levels of chemicals in products or places.Ĭalifornia officials decided last year to add BPA, or bisphenol A, to the list of about 800 other chemicals requiring Proposition 65 notices.
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