{"id":187,"date":"2008-04-18T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T03:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-04-18T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T03:00:22","slug":"bpa-whos-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/04\/bpa-whos-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"BPA<\/span> \u2014 Who\u2019s Prepared?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bisphenol\u2011A, a chem\u00adic\u00adal found in many of those hard plastic water bottles (look for polycar\u00adbon\u00adates with the recyc\u00adling num\u00adber 7, although not all of those have BPA<\/span> in them) has been in the news recently, cul\u00admin\u00adat\u00ading in today\u2019s announce\u00adment of a ban of baby bottles con\u00adtain\u00ading BPA<\/span><\/a> by Health Canada. This con\u00adtin\u00adues a trend from a US<\/span> Nation\u00adal Tox\u00adic\u00ado\u00adlogy Pro\u00adgram report<\/a> that expressed con\u00adcern, although it stopped short of call\u00ading BPA<\/span> dan\u00adger\u00adous. Since, like many house\u00adholds, we have quite a few of these bottles around, and since the chem\u00adic\u00adal is sup\u00adposed to be par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly dan\u00adger\u00adous to infants, I figured I should see which of the many plastic bottles and baby bottles we have might be safe. The polycar\u00adbon\u00adate bottles are deservedly pop\u00adu\u00adlar; they don\u2019t have the \u201cplastic\u201d taste that bottles made of #5 plastics do (although those are said to be com\u00adpletely safe since they don\u2019t leach), and they are unbreak\u00adable, unlike glass.<\/p>\n

Look\u00ading at vari\u00adous man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturer\u00ad\u2019s web sites shows you who\u2019s pre\u00adpared and who\u2019s stick\u00ading their heads in the sand hop\u00ading it will all blow over. In the pre\u00adpared cat\u00adegory, Rub\u00adber\u00admaid gets full marks for hav\u00ading a clear page<\/a> list\u00ading all the products with and without BPA<\/span>. Nal\u00adgene<\/a> (made fam\u00adous in Van\u00adcouver when MEC<\/span><\/a>, a major loc\u00adal store took all the bottles off its shelves because of BPA<\/span>) states they\u2019re phas\u00ading out BPA<\/span> and prom\u00adises to have new non-BPA products using trit\u00adan instead of polycar\u00adbon\u00adate in the stores start\u00ading next month. I don\u2019t have any of their bottles, but I know a lot of people do. Camel\u00adbak<\/a> points out on their web site\u2019s front page that not all #7 plastics con\u00adtain BPA<\/span> (true), but ignores the fact that there\u2019s no way a con\u00adsumer can tell which ones do. They\u2019re also intro\u00addu\u00adcing a line that uses non-BPA trit\u00adan. I gave a friend one of the Camel\u00adbak bottles for Christ\u00admas and will replace it once the trit\u00adan ver\u00adsions come out.<\/p>\n

In the middle, since they don\u2019t use BPA<\/span>, but don\u2019t tell people that on the web site are Medela<\/a>, who make vari\u00adous breast\u00adfeed\u00ading pumps and accessor\u00adies, includ\u00ading bottles. The Brita water fil\u00adter com\u00adpany has a hor\u00adrible flash web site with no search but\u00adton any\u00adwhere. The pitch\u00ader does\u00adn\u2019t look to me like it\u2019s made out of polycar\u00adbon\u00adate and that was con\u00adfirmed from this post<\/a>. It would make sense for Brita to add that inform\u00ada\u00adtion to their FAQ<\/span>.<\/p>\n

On the unpre\u00adpared side, Ger\u00adber<\/a> loses points for not even men\u00adtion\u00ading the issue any\u00adwhere on their site; the baby bottles I have from them are num\u00adber 7 and oth\u00ader sources say they have BPA<\/span>, so out they go. Tom\u00admee Tip\u00adpee<\/a> (a U.K. brand for baby bottles ad sipyy cups) has a page from Janu\u00adary 2007 in which they say BPA<\/span> is per\u00adfectly safe and that they use it in some products, without men\u00adtion\u00ading which, so I\u2019m not sure what to do about the ages-old hard plastic sippy cup I have from them. It isn\u2019t polycar\u00adbon\u00adate, but does it have BPA<\/span> in it? No idea. Avent<\/a> is anoth\u00ader baby bottle man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturer that admits they use BPA<\/span> and say it\u2019s safe. Tom\u00admee Tip\u00adpee isn\u2019t avail\u00adable in Canada any\u00adway, but I guess the oth\u00ader two are going to have some prob\u00adlems in the next little while, as are the retail\u00aders that stock them.<\/p>\n

There are lots of blogs out there with list\u00adings of products that have or do not have BPA<\/span> (e.g., this one<\/a>). As with many health issues it\u2019s hard to know how to far to go without going over\u00adboard, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly with vari\u00adous health admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtions seem\u00adingly dif\u00adfer\u00ading in their views of what the risk really is. I find it iron\u00adic, how\u00adever, that the man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders of products mostly used by adults, where the risk is smal\u00adler, seem to be more respons\u00adive than those of products used by the infants who are most susceptible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bisphenol\u2011A, a chem\u00adic\u00adal found in many of those hard plastic water bottles (look for polycar\u00adbon\u00adates with the recyc\u00adling num\u00adber 7, although not all of those have BPA<\/span> in them) has been in the news recently, cul\u00admin\u00adat\u00ading in today\u2019s announce\u00adment of a ban of baby bottles con\u00adtain\u00ading BPA<\/span> by Health Canada. This con\u00adtin\u00adues a trend from \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cBPA<\/span> \u2014 Who\u2019s Prepared?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57,58],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-bpa","tag-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}