Argh chickpeas and BPA

[Ginshizz]

Having spent ages cooking up loads of stuff for DD today, I just read canned chickpeas can have BPA in them ... I can't seem to get anything sensible out of google, can anyone who knows about these things tell me if this is true? Will I need to chuck out everything I cooked containing chickpeas? (Happy to do this if there's a question mark over the food).

Thank you!

I'd never heard of this so did a bit of googling. It looks like all tin cans with a white, yellow or transparent plastic lining contain BPA.

This link plasticisrubbish.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/why-does-my-tin-can-have-a-plastic-liner-and-it-it-bad-for-me/ has more info but says:

"an average adult consumer would have to ingest more than 230 kilograms (or about 500 pounds) of canned food and beverages every day for an entire lifetime to exceed the safe level of BPA set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."

I'm happy to take that risk and will continue using tinned food.

HTH

Thank you! I bow to your search skills, I just seemed to find scaremongering or the opposite!

I will make sure neither DD nor I consume 230kgs of my cooking per day...