Groups concerned over BPA in canned foods

BALTIMORE — If you look in your pantry, you most likely have a canned food from a major brand.

If that is the case, one research group in Maryland said you may be exposed to toxic chemicals and some said not enough is being done to fix it.

"What we did is we sent in these 200 cans to be tested and we found unfortunately over 60 percent of them contained BPA," Juliana Bilowich, a public health organizer with Maryland Public Interest Research Group, said

BPA is also known as bisphenol A and has been linked to cancer and brain damage. The new study the group and five other nonprofit organizations commissioned found that two out of every three cans they measured from major brands like Campbell's and Del Monte contained BPA.

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