Cheryl Rosenfeld, an associate professor of biomedical sciences in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine says that scientific study shows BPA has been found in canned foods, beverages, and dog food. Here is part of their findings:
Dog owners volunteered their healthy pets for the study. Blood and fecal samples were collected prior to the dogs being placed on one of two commonly used, commercial canned food diets for two weeks; one diet was presumed to be BPA-free. Robert Backus, an associate professor in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, and other researchers on the team then analyzed the cans and the food contained in the cans for BPA levels and performed gut microbiome assessments.
“The dogs in the study did have minimal circulating BPA in their blood when it was drawn for the baseline,” Rosenfeld said. “However, BPA increased nearly three-fold after being on the either of the two canned diets for two weeks. We also found that increased serum BPA concentrations were correlated with gut microbiome and metabolic changes in the dogs analyzed. Increased BPA may also reduce one bacterium that has the ability to metabolize BPA and related environmental chemicals.”
It is said that dogs who share both internal and external environments with their owners have prospects of experiencing the effects of BPA and other trade chemicals. And what effects our dogs can, indeed, affect us human beings.
It is sad to think of them as guinea pigs but, according to Science Daily, our pooches may be an early warning signal of deadly BPA in our homes!
