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Amazon launched a new "BPA-free" baby supply shop (BPA is a chemical found in some plastic bottles that may cause cancer). The only problem was that not all of the bottles were BPA-free. [Z Recommends]

4:02 PM on Mon May 5 2008, by Ben Popken, 482 views, Comment

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has signed the nation's first BPA ban into law. The law bans BPA from empty children's containers like sippy cups and bottles, and will go into effect in 90 days. The infants of Long Island just got a little safer.

3:21 PM on Thu Apr 2 2009, by Alex Chasick, 939 views, 31 comments

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.

3:58 PM on Wed May 13 2009, by Meg Marco, 1,181 views, 16 comments

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban BPA

Minnesota has enacted the "Toxic Free Kids Act," which will ban bisphenol-A (BPA) in sippy cups and baby bottles. Minnesota joins Suffolk County, New York, which banned BPA earlier this year. Other states and counties, as well as the federal...

5:01 PM on Fri May 8 2009, by Alex Chasick, 1,922 views, 13 comments

You can get a free Playtex Drop-Ins "nursing system" via this page. It's apparently their way of saying, "Look! We don't use BPA anymore!" [Playtex Baby]

3:39 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008, by Chris Walters, 1,316 views, 9 comments

BPA Linked To Erectile Dysfunction

Here's some bad news for people who like functional erections, Health.com says that a new study has linked erectile dysfunction to the controversial chemical BPA.

6:49 PM on Wed Nov 11 2009, by Meg Marco, 6,610 views, 39 comments

Consumer Advocate/Plastics Industry Showdown In California

Ten years ago, Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports and owner of Consumerist) warned us all about the potential danger from bisphenol A (BPA) leeching from plastic containers into our food. It's only in recent years that municipalities...

5:26 PM on Tue Jun 30 2009, by Laura Northrup, 3,863 views, 53 comments

BPA Levels Higher In Those With Heart Disease Or Diabetes

Another report measuring the negative effects of bisphenol A (BPA), the chemical found in plastics that Canada has banned and that the U.S. continues to fight over, has been released. Today the Journal of the American Medical Association published...

6:53 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008, by Chris Walters, 2,477 views, 26 comments

Water Bottles Marketed To BPA-Fearing Parents Contained BPA All Along

I may as well attach my Nalgene bottles to myself with steel cables, but it seems like everyone is switching over to metal bottles because of the public's new-found fear of plastic additive bisphenol-A (BPA.) One of the major manufacturers of...

7:30 PM on Sun Aug 23 2009, by Laura Northrup, 26,025 views, 111 comments

No More BPA Baby Bottles In US?

Philips Avent, the nation's largest seller of baby bottles, announced today that it will voluntarily stop selling bottles containing the controversial chemical bisphenol A (BPA). Attorneys general from Connecticut and New Jersey had written a...

10:31 AM on Fri Mar 6 2009, by Chris Walters, 1,987 views, 18 comments