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Guest blogger Sara Snow is a green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery's 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green.

Bisphenol A, more commonly known as BPA, has been long discussed in terms of its presence in plastics, especially in regards to baby bottles and water bottles.

Why the alarm?

Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce

All the blogs and newspapers are in a tizzy about a new study from the The National Work Group for Safe Markets, a coalition of public health and environmental health groups, that shows that BPA is in canned food.

Photo via BPA Plastic

Yesterday, news broke that the EPA was launching a major investigation into the impact of Bisphenol A--especially targeting the US water supply. BPA is a chemical that has been documented to have negative health impacts, especially on infants and children, and is commonly found in canned food, plastic bottles, and other everyday household items.

Michael Pollan's first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or "highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted."

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I am so embarrassed that we missed our walk down the red carpet for the Toxies on Wednesday night at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater.

Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce

The Food and Drug Administration finally came out with their long-awaited update on the use of Bisphenol A in food contact applications and they say.......wait a little longer.

Is it the Spam, or is it the can?

At some point, even the people at Stats.org are going to have to acknowledge the growing pile of studies from all over the world adding to the case against Bisphenol A (BPA).