We've been talking about BPA in plastic bottles and sippy cups for a very long time, and the mainstream press has brought this issue to the forefront again. On the Today show yesterday morning, there was a clip and an interview with a doctor who called BPA a major health threat for families. They reported that this month a large government study on BPA will be released.
The short of it? What we've been saying now for a long time. Avoid plastics with the number #3, #6 and #7. All the new Nalgene bottles are made with #7, hence my past post on being betrayed by Nalgene.
For more information on finding baby products (sippy cups, pacifers, feeding gear) without BPA, please visit the labels section of this blog, and look for BPA, BPA free, and Bisphenol A articles (or click here to see all the BPA articles).
Here is the video I referenced.
I can't help but notice the doctor said to throw away #1 bottles after one use. Ahem, didn't he mean to recycle them? And bottled water has its own very major set of environmental problems, as I started to write about in this post.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
BPA (Bisphenol A) in plastic hits the mainstream media (again!)-
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In what I can only suppose is a response to consumer complaints, etc, Nalgene now has some (but not their origonal bottle) containers that are non-BPA. I blogged about it after ZRecs did if you want to check it out. Also, there is a link to Nalgene's new website ...I don't use their bottles at all, but for those in love, there are now options.
http://mariawj.blogspot.com/2008/04/plastics.html
I can't believe that after denying any problems with BPA for so long- on their website, even linking to studies that supposedy refute the growing BPA data, that they now are making some BPA free options. I'm curious how on the site they can still manage to promote the ones with BPA and sell the ones without. I will check out all the sites you mentioned and probably post about it too. Thanks for the heads up.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/04/15/bisphenol.html
Some good news from here in Canada, Katy.
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