Who's throwing away there old bottles for BPA free ones?

[didsnbump]

Im really not sure what to do as im currently using Tommee tippee closer to nature bottles which have BPA in them.

I have alot of bottles and really hate to throw them away and buy new ones but then dont want to risk keeping using them!!

Whats everyone else doing??????

Not doing a thing.

Plastics are (maybe unfortunately) an unavoidable bit of life and there's far more risk of me being a clumsy cow and breaking a glass bottle and causing injury. My baby bites plastic rattles, toys, spoons etc which all supposedly contain these. There's no way I'm replacing perfectly good equipment until the Food Standards Agency make a conclusive statement.

I sought out the FSA advice too, it's almost a dammed if you do or don't thing for various reasons I am too tired to go into right now.

HVS have heard (apparently) nothing from the Dept of Health about guidelines either.

not me

Current FSA position

nope if it was that bad it would be banned

my plastic ones need replacing as they're quite worn now, so i am thinking of getting glass ones. not rushed out and done so yet, though - sometime in the next few weeks probably

i do think plastic is an unavoidable part of life however, the microwave/plastic combo kind of worries me, as the bottles do smell very plastic-y when they have just been sterilised

I use Tommee tippee closer to nature too and I'm still using them. There is too much hysteria around this issue at the moment.

Having said that if I was buying new I might look around for something else (!) but it seems like the manufacturers will phase it out eventually anyway (read on their website www.tommeetippee.co.uk/)

Pinata, how old are ur bottles?
Mine are only 4 months but have fine scratches all around them, so dont know if there worth replacing anyway??

Nope, keeping mine too. They are Tesco's own brand and do have BPA but if so many other plastics out there contain it too, then chucking out perfecly good bottles seems daft IMO.

many places in canada selling these bottles are offering full refunds - you just need the bottle and not lids/covers/teats etc.
sil got over $100 CDN for her bottles - they were avent ones

Where can you find out which bottles have BPA in and which don't? I already knew about the possible problems with BPA, but need to look into new bottles for the new baby.

I have been using the same bottles for 12 months, I have just been getting new teats every couple of months. I didn't know anything about BPA until yesterday?s news.

I am worried about it and have thrown all bottles away and as dd is now 13 months old we are starting her on a beaker today that will not need to be sterilised and heating the milk in a glass jug.

I can not believe that I was not told that you need to replace bottles regularly by a hv or gp, I have been using bottles since she was born as she had reflux and I needed to give her medicine in a bottle prior to breast feeding.

The only ones i have found that are BPA free are the Born Free range and the MAM ones!

Really dont know what to do, part of me wants to be safe rather than sorry!

Asda are going to introduce their own bottles that are BPA free.

We are past the bottle stage, but if no.2 comes along, he'll be getting ds's old Avent ones. This is yet another health scare created by the media. The study was carried out over a month ago in Canada. Some journo found it on a quiet day, imo. Call me sceptical
There has also been speculation re certain large companies (Asda, part of Wal-mart) who have brought the study to the attention of the authorities in the US because they have a vested interest in selling their produce.

Nope.

Sooner or later there will be a scare about teats, spouts and so on. These studies aren't that recent or conclusive. The call to ban these plastics in Canada was around a month ago and this "concern" has featured in the press on and off for years. Little has been proven and bpa is present in all sorts of containers and toys and where it isn't other compounds are. It seems the highest "risk" comes from using water at high temrpeatures, microwave sterilising and reheating but tbh it could also be questionable to use a microwave at all.

plastic equipment with a 7 in the recycle triangle contain BPA.

those with a 5 in the triangle are BPA free - it symbolises the plastic polypropelene.

for those who want to check.

Also the warnings in the US and Canada are regarding pouring boiling water directly into the bottles and then having baby drink from them - as they suspect there could be some leakage of the plastic into the liquid. If you are steam steralising and then you are not heating up the milk but letting it get to room temperature (I only use bottles for expressed milk) then I reckon it should be ok. One solution would be to make up formula - if you are doing formula - in advance in a glass container (like a pyrex measuring cup) and then letting them cool a bit before decanting them into your bottles.

www.avent.philips.com/en_US/products/philips_avent_on_BPA.asp?Int_origin=1_CP_baby_side_us_en _BPAStatmt

didsnbump - my bottles are about 4 months old too, and like yours they are scratched all over (bit enthusiastic with the bottle cleaning brush!)

i think glass ones will be better and hopefully (assuming i don't drop them) now last until we don't use bottles anymore

i do feel bad throwing them out, but i think i would rather be safe than sorry, for what works out as just a few quid, really. mine (mothercare ones) really do smell of chemicals onece microwaved

i don't see how you're supposed to not use boiling water or heat the bottles, if the advice is to make each feed fresh at 70 degrees at least and that all milk feeding equipment should be sterilised. unless i go down the whole cold water sterilising route, which seems like a bit of a faff and less reliable

I am chucking out my (8!) Tommee Tippee bottles and replacing them and they are all pretty new as DD is 7 weeks - IMO, it's not worth the risk.

Oh and it isn't just born free who sell them, see this page for all the options.

Im going for the MAM (sassy range) bottles, I brought one the other day to try, to see if my ds would feed from it and he was fine!

I thinking of maybe keeping my tomme tippee to use for juice later on, as the risk is only supposed to be from boiling water and heating (i cold water sterlize so no prob there), i cant see the harm in having them as extra for later on!!