Chicago Bans BPA In Baby Bottles
The Chicago City Council has voted to ban the controversial chemical BPA in baby bottles, says the Associated Press.
The AP says that spokesmen for the ordinance's sponsors, Aldermen Edward Burke and Manny Flores, said the ban will go into effect early next year.
The new ban differs greatly from the original proposed plan — in which the rights to operate baby bottles within the city limits were to be sold to a consortium of private investors for a lump cash sum.
Chicago City Council approves BPA baby bottle ban [Chicago Trib]
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I'm a Chicago resident and native. I love my hometown but have started developing perma-facepalm-itis. If it wasn't Foie Gras, it was the County electing the former president's son to succeed him. If it wasn't the attempted ban on trans fats, it was the Mayor demolishing Miegs Airport Field under the cover of darkness. If it wasn't the Mayor spending millions on a fucking shiny bean for millenium park, it was ... no, wait it was that.
@Kaellorian: Just looked that Bean thing up. That must really get hot in the summer and blind people as well.
Where the hell are all these bottles made of BPA? Polycarbonate isn't the same as BPA, just because it's used in its manufacture. This whole mess is like putting a ban on chlorine gas and sodium metal because you want people eating less table salt.
I'm so proud of my hometown... At least they didn't raise the sales tax this week.
Maybe next week, though.
I guess the potholes will be dealt with tomorrow.
@Kaellorian: Did Chicago beat New York and LA to the punch on this? I really think that's the only incentive that motivates the Chicago City Council to do anything.
@Kaellorian: I actually rolled my eyes on this one because BPA's gotten so much bad press that I was at Target last week, pondering bottles for the impending spawn, and they didn't actually HAVE any with BPA in them. The whole aisle was BPA-free. (I'm down in Peoria; we don't hold with them BPA-related laws.)
Public pressure has basically already accomplished this.
(I ended up not buying bottles. There were too many choices and I got confused and gave up.)
PS -- I love the Bean. :)
@DePaulBlueDemon: You're going to have to hurry, Peoria is TOTALLY catching up to Chicago on sales tax.
I'm going to be honest, I first read this as "Chicago Bans IPA in Baby Bottles." I know that contributes nothing to this thread, but, there you have it.
@PartOfIMAXConspiracy_GitEmSteveDave:
I have no doubt that insane Alderman Joe Moore will find BPA in foie gras!
Todd Stroger, the worst politician in the history of politics.
Certainly not a fan-favorite.
Here is more information on this ban, similar others nationwide and the ignorance of the FDA: [www.newsinferno.com]
IIRC, Chicago is also the place that banned Foi Gras within it's boundaries. And also, their police department couldn't even catch 2 guys w/a 1/2 tank of gas, 1/4 pack of cigarettes, and were wearing sunglasses near dawn.