| I strive to provide my boys with exercise and | | | | (BPA)-free baby bottles have turned up |
| healthy diets that are hormone, chemical, dye, | | | | positive...for BPA. A study sponsored by the |
| and plastic free. | | | | Canadian government was run in advance of a |
| Giving some thought to the fact that can goods | | | | planned BPA ban, and as a control, bottles not |
| have BPA in them because of the lining in the | | | | made with polycarbonate plastic (which usually |
| cans, then wouldn't baby food have the same | | | | contains BPA) were tested, along with the known |
| because of the lining of the lids? I found my | | | | BPA-containing bottles. |
| answer within minutes of searching online. | | | | What they found shocked health officials. There |
| Canadian researchers have found low levels of | | | | were traces of the chemical even in bottles not |
| BPA in glass jarred baby food. Canada has claimed | | | | made using it. |
| that eight-four percent of the samples tested | | | | How could this be? The leading theory is that |
| positive for Bisphenol A. | | | | "traces of BPA found to migrate from these |
| Will we ever escape BPA? I buy glass baby | | | | bottles could be artifacts of the manufacturing |
| bottles, yet the bottles come with plastic tops, I | | | | process" whatever that means. Then, because |
| don't doubt for a moment that they contain BPA. | | | | the non-BPA bottles leached less of the toxin than |
| Which brings to my mind a question of the use of | | | | known BPA-containing bottles, they were declared |
| Bisphenol A free labels. When can a company | | | | "a reasonable alternative" to the BPA bottles. |
| claims their product is BPA free? When there is | | | | Maybe it's reasonable and maybe it's not. But I |
| only low levels of BPA or no BPA? The glass | | | | have to quibble with calling something "free" of |
| bottles I bought said Bisphenol A Free. Which | | | | something that it contains-even in a trace amount. |
| means I am expecting a Bisphenol A free bottle. | | | | My family will be sticking to glass and stainless |
| Apparently tests run on supposedly Bisphenal-A | | | | steel. Yours? |