Companies Voluntarily Banish BPA From Bottles

sciam.com:

As politicos bandy about the issue of banning bisphenol A (BPA), the hard-plastic additive that's been linked to a host of health problems, several companies have recently announced that they will banish it from their baby products. Attorneys general from Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware in October asked six major baby bottle makers to stop using the controversial chemical. All of the companies have agreed to comply, according to a statement released yesterday by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.

"This prompt positive response sends a profoundly significant message that baby bottle manufacturers respect the science showing BPA health dangers," Blumenthal said. According to the announcement, Avent, Disney First Years, Dr. Brown, Evenflow, Gerber and Playtex will all stop selling bottles and formula containing the chemical. Retailers, such as Wal-Mart, CVS and Toys 'R Us, announced last year that they would also discontinue selling them.

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Comments

[jsgaetano]

05:25 PM on 03/09/2009

Notice how this came about after eight years of the "asleep at the wheel" management of consumer safety by Republicans.

They are happy- they got to poison America for eight years... and get away with it.

[aweissnet]

01:45 PM on 03/08/2009

The corporation has caused the nation's health to deteriorate and the medical industry and insurance industry have capitalized on it. They're not actually improving our health either, not from my experience.

The FDA is busy going after supplements and alternative healing methods, rather than keeping track of corporations poisoning our food. Let's not forget the rat & excrement recently found churned into peanut butter. How long was that going on before people started dying from salmonella? How MUCH rat and excrement can you eat? And they just quietly closed their doors? A man is sentenced to prison right now for making electronic devices that haven't killed one person, and potentially helped. That's what the FDA was busy doing: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/feb/18/bn18convict-medical-scam/

Whether you have any knowledge of this technology or not, it doesn't matter. In the worst case, he was harmless. The corporations are killing us.

There is a movement to overhaul the FDA and I encourage everyone to sign the petition:

https://secure3.convio.net/aahf/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=283

[Tiggy]

11:33 PM on 03/07/2009

Yet another example of Corps harming the human body and our gov't standing by allowing it to happen. This is one of many harmful chemicals that enter our bodies. Where are the consumer protections?

[gemzenith]

06:46 PM on 03/07/2009

I work in a factory that has used BPAs for five years.What effect will this have on myself and my co-workers?Its sonically welded and we are required to use the product on the production floor.Should I be concerned?

[Hannes]

10:11 PM on 03/07/2009

Check this out and start looking for a new job:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130092108.htm

[Hannes]

10:45 PM on 03/07/2009

I have one more for you:
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Plasticizers/Out-Of-Diet-PG5nov03.htm

[PlaceboStudman]

06:25 PM on 03/07/2009

Now how do we get pharmaceutical companies to stop using cellulose and gelatin for their gel caps and capsules for medication?

Cellulose and gelatin are key components in many medications, that can not be metabolized by the body and can lead to damage to kidneys and liver in the attempt to pass them from the body (you eventually just poop them out)

Cellulose is also used for the production of cellophane and rayon, both of which are synthetic polymers, and frankly, I for one do not like the idea of plastics running through my body

And THAT is why I smoke pot and think it should be legal :-D

[TreesPlease]

01:11 PM on 03/07/2009

They did not 'volunteer', they were asked (or told) to.

[zukervati]

11:08 PM on 03/06/2009

They've known about this for decades that this is one of the most harmful elements for human consumption, worst than melamine that was introduced in the dog food in China. This has the potential to become the next asbestos fiasco for the world. Everyone at the top of the food chain knew that this was coming, but left the issue for the next administration to handle (whilst EU and Canada banned it a long time ago).

I hope that this turns into a major lawsuit that kills the Chemical and petroleum lobby here in the USA. They've been blessing similar things for decades, just like their brethren in the tobacco industry (all of those lying CEOs who took the oath in front of the committee stating that they didn't think cigarettes were addictive!) Recent studies have shown that the sperm count in men has been decreasing worldwide since the twenties. Dang, pretty soon our hombres won't be able to procreate at the prevailing rate. The only thing I can find that correlates with this phenomena worldwide is the introduction of hydrocarbons worldwide.

So, we haven't only been polluting our environment but our food and reproductive organs at the same time - yet the oil and the chemical industry keeps pumping the congressional coffers so that they can keep telling us otherwise. Time for pitch-fork/shovel march to the Capital ladies and gentlemen - I see righteous lawsuits coming!