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BPA is short for Bisphenol A. It is an ingredient in anything which requires plastic or epoxy, which includes a lot of items we use daily. Such an integral part of manufacturing as BPA cannot and did not miraculously get replaced. It will take years to find a replacement for something so widely used. I am more afraid of what is being used to replace BPA than I am of BPA. Many companies quickly took the opportunity to market their products as BPA free by substituting it with a similar compound that goes by a different name or an ingredient which is far more dangerous, but not in the health lime light yet.  I follow research out of the EU and at this time they are still using small amounts of BPA in products with the exception of baby bottles.

At Tibetan Tea, we use the highest quality aluminum cans which are produced by the Ball Corporation.   The amount of BPA used in their interior linings are the lowest in any industry & the amount is immeasurable. There is not enough present to require disclosure, however they choose to release the information. The FDA BPA limit is 33 per million. Ball cans have so small of an amount as to be immeasurable: as in parts per trillion. As is no secret to Tibetan Tea customers, what the FDA standards are does not carry much weight with us. So even using EU and Canadian standards, the content is undetectable.

Why Tibetan Tea is in aluminum cans: Firstly, we use aluminum cans as we pasteurize our product to prevent the anti-oxidant destruction associated with hot filling in glass bottles. Secondly, glass is not being recycled. It costs more for the gas to drive the glass to the plants than it costs to make new glass.