Results tagged “bpa”

In the hubbub last year over the potential teratogenic and hormone-disrupting effects of bisphenol A, everyone tossed their old Nalgene in favor of a new one made from bio-based plastic, a Klean Kanteen, or a Sigg bottle. In particular, the demands for Sigg were so high that the hundred-year-old Swiss company had to shut down production for a few months while they retooled their factory to keep up with the new demand. Well, now it's time to toss those Siggs, as the company has recently announced that the lining of any bottles made prior to August 2008 contained BPA after all. Mmmm, taste the delicious decreased testosterone levels. Figure out if you've been poisoning yourself here.

Eww...Somehow we haven't ever before considered the potentially toxic chemicals in such seemingly innocuous every-day items as baby bottles, but now we're eying all the plastic around us with new suspicion. The chemical in question today is bisphenol A, or BPA, which the state House just voted to ban from baby bottles, sippy cups and water bottles sold here. How timely--today, six of the largest manufacturers of baby bottles announced they're not even going to make BPA-contaminated products anymore, according to the Washington Post.

The need to develop alternative energy is one of the incoming Obama administration's talking points. Here in Washington, alternative energy looks a lot like huge wind farms east of the mountains; according to the Tacoma News Tribune, the state's wind farms are currently producing enough electricity to power two Seattles.

Over at the Slog, the ECB has interrupted the usual stream-of-pop-cultural-consciousness with some actual health news: "According to a new analysis, plastic products marketed for infants or labeled "microwave safe" (including those stamped with "safe" plastic numbers 1, 2, and 5) leached out potentially toxic levels of a chemical called bisphenol-A (BPA) when heated in a microwave." The worst offender was Enfamil baby formula, which is like a kick in the gut, as BPA is an endocrine disruptor and especially unsafe for kids. So you can go ahead and throw that shit out. And by "that shit," we mean of course the FDA.