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<rummaging in the kitchen drawer for the little mini-spatual>
Better to be safe then not......I'm right behind you, finding my mini-spatula. No more "metal" hits the "metal". Either that, or when you open a can of food, shake it out.....LOL BUT that can both be aggravating and messy!
I think I will continue to buy the pet food that I do. I will change from using a metal spoon to a rubber spatula to scoop out pet and people food.
Can't do anything about that Dr. Pepper though. Besides, who knows how many cans, plastic bottles, and glass jars contain BPA... that we don't know about!
Nestle says it will take them 3 years to totally phase out any use of BPA. By that time, it will be something new.
I've actually used a knife to scrape the food off the side of the can. I have a Pug and I really hope it hasn't affected him. Ugh... I just assumed the can was safe.
Here's the funny thing, I've noticed the difference in one or two brands of cans, can tell the can is made differently. But I don't really know which is which. I'm guessing that the oddball or two are the BPA-free cans, but I don't really know that.
This is not something I'm stewing over though over the last several months. I'm still just buying the favorite foods without regard to what's lining the can and often enough still using a metal spoon (though I stop short of using a fork like I once did, heh).
I've been using the rubber spatula since this thread started. But you know, it took a good three weeks to break the habit of reaching for a spoon instead of the spatula!
Supposedly none of the foods I feed contain BPA in the cans. But the non-scratching spatula still makes good sense, I think.
Actually results were inconclusive for humans because there is no animal exactly like us, (rats are the worst test subjects to compare to humans for nutritional studies because of their cecum and fast metabolisms).
What many in this forum fail to realize is that while most experts think it's okay for healthy young adults (not babies) to have BPA, studies have for sure shown that it is not safe for pets.
Most studies I've read agree that BPA is absolutely NOT safe for pets, and a definite concern for human babies. Young adults have no reason to worry until a couple hundred of us volunteer to ingest massive loads of the stuff. They know there are side effects, but they can't say for sure yet, primarily because no animal has our exact physiology. (anytime someone says yeah, but they had to feed a rat 100 times that amount to kill it, I want to scream. Rats have a cecum and super speed metabolism to boot. It may take 100 units of a drug to harm them, and only 1 unit to harm us, or vice versa. Yes research in rats advances our understanding of medicine, but no we absolutely cannot draw conclusive evidence about a human based on studies of a rat. It only tells us where to look, basically gives us a map of Yosemite, but it won't give us the park on a platter.)
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Besides, who knows how many cans, plastic bottles, and glass jars contain BPA... that we don't know about! 
Yosemite Sam
