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Recent news from the citizen-based environmental advocacy group Environmental California states that your baby's plastic baby-bottle may be leaching toxins. From their report's executive summary:

Products marketed for infants and children are not always completely safe for their use. Many contain toxic chemicals that may have detrimental health impacts for children exposed during critical stages of development. In this report, we analyze the extent to which five popular brands of baby bottles leach bisphenol A, a developmental, neural, and reproductive toxicant, into liquids coming into contact with them. We found that all five brands leach bisphenol A at dangerous levels found to cause harm in numerous laboratory animal studies.

Their report, "Toxic Baby Bottles," outlines the types of problems the toxin can cause, the brands tested and goes on to make recommendations that parents use glass bottles or safer non-polycarbonate plastic bottles.

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112762

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Thanks, Ronni. One of my sisters is expecting again, and I'll be sure to share this with her.

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LatashaWillis

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2007-05-10T20:03:02-06:00

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112763

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I saw this report a couple of months ago and was totally obsessed over it. Now I am calmed down a bit. I did call and speak with Gerber and they stated that their researchers are not finding the same dangers. I don't buy it, of course they would say that. But, I switched to the Nuby sippy cups which my little one took to right away. It's almost like a bottle since the spouts are soft like the nipples. The baby still won't drink out of the harder plastic sippy cups but she loves the Nuby because the flow is a lot faster. The Nuby is supposed to not have the harmful plastic. Thanks for posting this!!! I emailed it to all my friends, but felt like they all thought I was a nutjob....

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Birdseye

Date

2007-05-11T10:12:29-06:00

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112764

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There are some Google Links on this page to online stores where you can buy safe baby bottles. They're not cheap, but maybe it's worth it.

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LatashaWillis

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2007-05-11T11:06:18-06:00