Oregonians To Fred Meyer: “We Don’t Want Toxic BPA!”

Post by Sophia Aguilera OEC and our friends made quite a splash in Oregon’s city center this week. Passers-by in cars honked approval, and those on foot stopped to ask questions. It wasn’t just the adorable babies in our crowd that caught Portland’s attention; it was genuine interest in and concern about our reason for being in front of Fred Meyer: toxic BPA in food can linings. Remember our grocery trip to local Portland-area stores including Fred Meyer back in 2015? It’s hard to forget, now that lab testing confirmed that most of the cans we purchased were lined with an epoxy that can leach the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol ...