1+1 Health Sante Canada Canada Dear Sir/Madam: This is further to your message requesting that Canada develop regulatory measures that will remove bisphenol A (BPA) from all food and beverage containers, and from other sources such as cash register receipts. Canada signaled its commitment to assessing and managing BPA as part of the federal governments Chemicals Management Plan (CMP). In October 2008, under the CMP, the Government of Canada published the results of its assessment of BPA. Along with this assessment was a commitment to further reduce infant exposure to BPA by prohibiting the importation, sale and advertising of polycarbonate baby bottles that contain this chemical. This prohibition came into effect in March of 2010. Health Canadas Food Directorate provided input into the CMP BPA assessment and committed to a number of actions designed to further reduce the already low exposure from food. Details on these actions can be found at: hcsc. gc.ca/fn-an/securit/packag-emball/bpa/index-eng.php. The weight of currently available scientific information indicates that current dietary exposure to BPA from food packaging does not pose a health risk. Food safety authorities in the United States, the European Union, and Japan have reached a similar conclusion. However, if new scientific information becomes available in the future that definitively links dietary BPA exposure to a health risk, the Department will take appropriate action to mitigate that risk, including, if necessary, further restricting uses of this chemical. In the meantime, Health Canada supports efforts by the food industry to develop BPA-free packaging alternatives, and the Department anticipates that in the foreseeable future BPA-free coatings for cans will gradually replace most of the existing coatings which use BPA. For example, recent dietary exposure estimates for BPA from 2012 indicate that intake from food has decreased almost threefold compared to estimates from 2008. The Food Directorate is also carefully reviewing pre-market submissions for BPA-free food packaging to ensure that the BPA replacement materials do not pose a health risk. Thank you for writing. Yours sincerely, . ~~ ~~~roiPh.D: Director General, Food Directorate Canada
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:22:48 +0000
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