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This year has seen aOvervoltage of canned food consumption-After all, the cans are one of the most practical ways to store a pantry with cooking shortcuts to a fast dinner. Not to mention, there is a currentShortage of aluminum cans Because we buy a lot more soda and beer in grocery stores. But if you are worried about whether canned food and canned drinks negatively influences your health, you are definitely on something.

Food and drinks packed in metal cans contain traces of dreaded bisphenol, better known as BPA. This chemical compound is an endocrine disruptor known that has been linked to fetal abnormalities, heart disease, obesity, diabetes and even cancer in humans.

The official position of the Food and Drug Administration of the United States and the drug (FDA) places BPA in the category of chemical compounds generally safe, which is why canned products for human consumption are always allowed to be sold in Grocery stores. The consensus sharing food safety experts is that the total human exposure to BPA of all sources is very low.However, the results of a recent study may seem like a few new alarms on the negative aspects of long-term health outcomes of exposure to BPA.

The study, published in theJournal of Jama Network Open, found a correlation between increased BPA levels in the body and an increased probability of dying in a period of 10 years. In reality,People who had the highest levels of BPA in their system were 49% more likely to die within 10 years. "This is another element of puzzle that would convince the severity of the threat posed by these chemicals used in the thermal liners and paper," Dr. Leonardo Trarasande, study author and director of the pediatric of the environment. NYU LANGONE HEALTH, saidCnn.

Although the first study to find such a result, Dr. Trackeande explained that it may not be a tendency to think about the levels of BPA as a mortality factor because they increase the Risk of other murderers such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

This source of BPA is even more dangerous during the pandemic

According to the disease control and prevention center (CDC), BPA is located in a myriad of common products such as plastic bottles, car parts and toys. But the most common exposure methods come from food and drinks contaminated with aluminum cans, as well as the handling of the thermal paper used to create recipes to almost all stores.

In reality,Contamination via thermal recipes is even more dangerous during the pandemic. According to CNN, studies have shown that the use of a hand disinfectant creates a key gateway for chemicals to be absorbed into the body.

"A study revealed that if you manage these revenues of thermal paper and use a hand disinfectant, you absorb almost ten times more bisphenols in your body," said Dr. Trackeye saying.

This puts the front-line workers, such as cashiers in grocery stores, at an even higher health risk during the pandemic when hand disinfectant is widely used as a prevention against contractual coronavirus.

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