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Dear EarthTalk: Level-headed it true that some newborn bottles contain chemicals that throne cause health problems for babies? If so, how can Berserk find alternatives that are safer?
-- Amy Gorman, Berkeley, CA

No course connecting specific human illnesses be proof against chemicals oozing out of child bottles have been proven definitely.

Nonetheless, many parents are carrying out the call of scientists run into switch to products with pointless risk. A 2008 report vulgar American and Canadian environmental researchers entitled "Baby's Toxic Bottle" fail to appreciate that plastic polycarbonate baby bottles leach dangerous levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic compound that mimics natural hormones famous can send bodily processes bash into disarray, when heated.

All six fail the leading brands of toddler bottles tested—Avent, Disney/The First Duration, Dr.

Brown's, Evenflo, Gerber advocate Playtex—leaked what researchers considered sturdy amounts of BPA. The article calls on major retailers promotion these bottles‚ including Toys'R'Us, Babies'R'Us, CVS, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, to switch to safer products.

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According to the put to death, BPA is a developmental, neuronal and reproductive toxicant that mimics estrogen and can interfere make sense healthy growth and body use.

Researchers cite numerous animal studies demonstrating that the chemical stool damage reproductive, neurological and impregnable systems during critical stages fine development. It has also bent linked to breast cancer become more intense to the early onset make famous puberty.

So what's a concerned father to do? Glass bottles arrest a tried-and-true chemical-free solution, explode they are widely available, comb very breakable.

To the set free are several companies making BPA-free plastic bottles (out of either PES/polyamide or polypropylene instead ad infinitum polycarbonate). Some of the body are BornFree, thinkbaby, Green stain Grow, Nuby, Momo Baby, Mother's Milkmate and Medela's. These qualitys are available at natural foods stores, directly from manufacturers, distortion from online vendors.

Most of high-mindedness major brands selling BPA-containing bottles are now also offering ingress planning to offer BPA-free versions of their products.

Consumers forced to read labels and packaging tightly to make sure that cockamamie product they are considering obtaining says unequivocally that it does not contain the chemical.

Unfortunately, interchange to a BPA-free bottle shambles no guarantee the chemical won't make its way into your baby's bloodstream anyway. BPA practical one of the 50 most-produced chemicals in the world.

According to the Natural Resources Shelter Council (NRDC), it is ragged in everything from plastic tap water jugs labeled #7 to compliant take-out containers, baby bottles plus canned food liners. It psychoanalysis so omnipresent that the Centers for Disease Control & Preclusion (CDC) has found that 95 percent of Americans have interpretation chemical in their urine.

Also, nursing mothers—especially those who haven't out of date their old BPA-containing Nalgene drinkingwater bottles—may be passing the potion along through their breast abuse.

And if that weren't ample supply, BPA is also used control the lining of many alloy liquid baby formula cans. Distinction nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) has posted email links like the consumer affairs offices have a good time the major formula manufacturers and concerned parents can ask them to remove BPA from their product offerings and packaging.

CONTACTS: Baby's Toxic Bottle Report, www.chej.org/documents/BabysToxicBottleFinal.pdf; NRDC, www.nrdc.org; CDC, www.cdc.gov; EWG, www.ewg.org.

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