If you’ve got a baby and you’re concerned about buying unlabeled products that contain Bisphenol A or BPA—which some studies have indicated may lead to adverse health effects in humans—the website Z Recommends has just launched a free text messaging service that lets you query their database of companies while you’re standing in the store. They’ve also got a printable wallet-card you can carry with you, which serves as both a cheat-sheet for the text service and a quick reference source for major companies.
“The Z Report on BPA In Children’s Feeding Products, Third Edition” [Z Recommends]
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Not a bad idea. Someone should come up with something like this for lead-tainted toys, or better yet, toy recalls in general. Or maybe someone already has, anyone?
I know that for our bottles we’ve been using the Playtex Drop-ins, those are BPA free. We considered glass but it was a little pricier than we expected, and the constant cleaning of those bottles seemed more of a headache in the long run.
This is just a fantastic implementation. I’m off to visit a friend who just gave birth, and I’m going to let her know about this.
This sort of “on-demand” consumer information is promising. How many people’s problems on this site would be prevented if they had the appropriate information on their purchases before making them? (I’m thinking a legal database query coulda helped the Utah couple with the car snafu, or say, info on failure rates for electronics before someone purchases an extended warranty).
There’s some nice little bottles made by Evenflo. They’re downright cheap. We used them and had no problems. Better to be safe than end up with a f’cked up kid, no?
Cue the retards who claim it’s all sensationalism and media fear-mongering.
Show me someone who doesn’t think this makes sense and I’ll show you a jackass that was fed by a plastic bottle and then dropped on his head a few times as a tot.
Just curious. If this appears before my last comment.
Z Recs rocks, especially on this issue. I used it’s BPA guide to purchase bottles, pacis, and sippy cups and also dumped our Lexan water bottles because of their report.
I hope BPA becomes a non-issue soon – it should be banned. It really is some yucky stuff.