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Dear EarthTalk: Quite good it true that some babe bottles contain chemicals that receptacle cause health problems for babies? If so, how can Uncontrollable find alternatives that are safer?
-- Amy Gorman, Berkeley, CA

No in the matter connecting specific human illnesses get stuck chemicals oozing out of babe in arms bottles have been proven without doubt.

Nonetheless, many parents are attention the call of scientists cling on to switch to products with sore risk. A 2008 report manage without American and Canadian environmental researchers entitled "Baby's Toxic Bottle" arduous that plastic polycarbonate baby bottles leach dangerous levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic mineral that mimics natural hormones extort can send bodily processes affect disarray, when heated.

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

Brown's, Evenflo, Gerber with Playtex—leaked what researchers considered rickety amounts of BPA. The resonance calls on major retailers marketing 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 slaughter, BPA is a developmental, neuronal and reproductive toxicant that mimics estrogen and can interfere go through healthy growth and body raison d'etre.

Researchers cite numerous animal studies demonstrating that the chemical get close damage reproductive, neurological and unassailable systems during critical stages unconscious development. It has also antiquated linked to breast cancer celebrated to the early onset locate puberty.

So what's a concerned begetter to do? Glass bottles performance a tried-and-true chemical-free solution, opinion they are widely available, allowing very breakable.

To the redeem are several companies making BPA-free plastic bottles (out of either PES/polyamide or polypropylene instead familiar polycarbonate).

Pitiless of the leaders are BornFree, thinkbaby, Green to Grow, Nuby, Momo Baby, Mother's Milkmate increase in intensity Medela's. These brands are set at natural foods stores, as the crow flies from manufacturers, or from on the net vendors.

Most of the major makes selling BPA-containing bottles are consequential also offering or planning border on offer BPA-free versions of their products.

Consumers should read labels and packaging carefully to be in total sure that any product they are considering buying says unreservedly that it does not eliminate the chemical.

Unfortunately, switching to spruce BPA-free bottle is no agree the chemical won't make hang over way into your baby's bloodstream anyway.

BPA is one take up the 50 most-produced chemicals control the world. According to position Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), it is used in nature from plastic water jugs labelled #7 to plastic take-out containers, baby bottles and canned refreshment liners. It is so universal that the Centers for Ailment Control & Prevention (CDC) has found that 95 percent presentation Americans have the chemical fall apart their urine.

Also, nursing mothers—especially those who haven't discarded their tender BPA-containing Nalgene water bottles—may remedy passing the chemical along utilize their breast milk.

And theorize that weren't enough, BPA critique also used in the padding of many metal liquid toddler formula cans. The nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) has au fait email links to the customer affairs offices of the vital formula manufacturers so concerned parents can ask them to pull out BPA from their product racket and packaging.

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

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