Good for you. Many of us have also survived cancer, and view the entire BPA scare tactics as a hoax. Even if the risks were worth worrying about, they involve passing harmful chromosonal mutations to your offspring. Since I'm well past child rearing years, I couldn't care less.

When Nalgene switched to BPA free bottles, I quickly bought a lifetime supply of BPA enriched bottles, in case the new ones were substandard. I'm still using them.

I admire your sense of humor about it.

What's passing through my mind right now is the image I often saw when working at a major hospital about 25 years ago. There would be these very skinny very physically debilitated people, almost phantoms, with IV poles shuffling up and down the hall in hospital gowns and all marked up around their heads and necks with purple marker dye for the x-ray therapy machines. They all had open tracheostomy holes in their throats with half their neck muscles missing and scars running up and down their necks. They'd be smoking cigarettes through their tracheostomy holes.

Smoking in a hospital.....ha, that was a long time ago.

Anyway, back on track. Regardless what the real risk is, personally I don't think I'll be heating canned food by a fire anytime in the near future.

And of course, that's fine. Certainly, it's your choice, and nobody will debate that. It doesn't hurt to be careful.

Keep your chin up and your humor as well! None of us will get out of this alive, but we can still laugh about it.

Don't sweat the small stuff, and in the end, it's all small stuff! A very wise old man passed that on to me years ago...

BPA=Best Plastic Around,When the scare made it's way around,I scored some xlnt deals of which,make up All of my canteen needs for 2 Lifetimes!Please let us have another scare or two,I just love xlnt deals!

Unfortunately, "stand up to" is not the same as "will not release any BPA into food".

Any canned food already has BPA in it that leaches from the can liner. Re-heating the food by heating the can is just adding more BPA, but how much? Who knows. So, if you're worried about BPA, it's already in the food before you even re-heat that can.

We've had this BPA discussion many times. If you're into old school toxicology, BPA should not be able to harm us in the quantities involved. If you're more open minded about the hormonal action of BPA and understand that hormones operate at miniscule concentrations, you can't dismiss that incredibly tiny amounts of BPA can affect cells in the lab or even in animals and there are plenty of studies that show that. We do not have a regulatory framework in this country that can really handle this new alternative class of toxins.

Humans already screw up their health in so many other ways and we live a long time, so it's hard to study the effect directly in people so I'm not sure if we'll ever have definitive evidence just from human studies. Actually, you could say the same thing about tobacco. It took a really long time to conclude that smoking harms us but little of the evidence is the kind of direct human evidence that your average person seem to expect from people warning us of chemicals like BPA. I think everyone here would agree that smoking is bad for your health? A couple decades from now, we may all think it's a given that BPA is harmful and shouldn't be used in food packaging.

I personally don't think about BPA much, but that's mostly out of practicality. It's everywhere. I do think that it, and many other chemicals that we are exposed to daily like pthalates, can certainly be affecting our health in ways that we're just not aware of at the moment.