They are confident that the price system will allocate the supply of canned foods to the customers who will value them the most.

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If you do, you are about to get one step closer to BPA-free shopping thanks to a proactive move by the supermarket chain to ban BPA from its canned foods and receipts.

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When Gamble exhibited an array of canned foods at the Great Exhibition in 1851, to widespread approval, it must have seemed like the tin can's switch from military necessity to household must-have was only a matter of time.

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Cincinnati-based Kroger announced last week that in addition to making sure there is no BPA in the baby products it sells, the store is ridding the chemical from its store brand canned foods and purchasing BPA-free paper for its store receipts.

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The coating for the Eden Foods canned products is a solvent-based technology that is commonly used in 3-part cans for mild foods, such as beans.

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But then there were fewer dogs to bark at me as I passed under the trees, and, where the dog was big, so was the dog door, and I could crawl in and avail myself of the canned and packaged foods in kitchen pantries.

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Another antioxidant, lycopene, found in foods like canned tomatoes and red grapefruit juice, also promotes skin health.

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Even watermelons, vegetables and fruit are shipped in from nearby cities, together with packaged American foods and case after case of canned sodas.

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While a child-sized serving of these foods may result in BPA exposure at a level of concern, the repeated servings of canned soups, pastas, vegetables, fruits that a child eats in a week, in a year, and throughout her developing years, are what drive our Cans Not Cancer campaign.

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