Now Seems Clear Some Baby Bottles are Harmful

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Most Polybcarbonate plastics contain Bisphenol A which migrates into any food or drink in contact with it without any heating (just repeated washing is enough for the Bisphenol to begin coming out of the plasticleeching). Its been known since the 30's that Bisphenol A behaves like the female hormone Estrogen but no-one in the plastics industry bothered thinking one further step ahead to work out what effect it may have on our babies!

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-plastics3aug03,0,234908.story?coll=la-home-cent er

Theres some daily dosages information on Wikipedia which is pretty scary (see the table on this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A )

The European Food Safety Authority study clearly shows using a Polycarbonate bottle significantly increases a babies exposure to Bisphenol A www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/afc/afc_opinions/bisphenol_a.html

Lastly this is an American page but shows which manufacturers have Bisphenol A in their products - again it makes depressing reading with NONE of the bottles from major manufacturers like Avent being Bisphenol A free. zrecs.blogspot.com/2007/07/z-report-bisphenol-in-polycarbonate.html

Just look up Bisphenol A on Google - scary stuff - I'm replacing all our bottles today!

and you can't assume that they are made the same for US market as European or even UK one.

actually i think you are right.
i am sure when i bought the brown ones, i read on the packaging that they didnt release chemicals but i didnt take a lot of notice as i personally had not heard about it really being a problem.

i agree with the point made that as long as there is profit to be made, they will keep on selling the bottles.

I remember when they were brown a couple of years ago they made a point in the accompanying literature of saying that one of the selling points was that they were Bisphenol A free. then theer was some weird lawsuit thing where they disappeared from the shelves for a while, cam eback a B free (brown) and then back as Dr Browns (clear) and then the literature had droppped that bit as a selling point. I rememeber someone on a different forum confirming that they were no longer free of it. Shocking really, this was over 2 years ago now and still nothing has been done. Weird that they knew about it and used it as a selling point but then went back on it. I would certainly buy them again if they were ok. Does anyone know if you can still get the B Freee ones or was that just while the lawsuit thing about the Dr Brown's name was on?

I think the deal is this; there is a wealth of animal experimental data that says there is cause for concern, but not enough human experimental clinical data to swing it in favour of manufacturers changing the bottle materials. The potential is there for human health damage, the question seems to be are people prepared to risk it, until it's proven. I think most people would continue to use polycarbonate bottles regardless, unless there was a complete ban. It's rather like the parabens dilemma - how far would an individual go to eliminate this ingredient in their choice of cosmetic and toiletry preparations, or their baby's for that matter. Having an informed choice is good imo.

Just found this www.babybornfree.co.uk/Catalog.aspx?categoryid=19617 seems to be the latest incarnation of the Dr Brown competitors which are Bisphenol free. The teats look exactly the same. It is very weird.