blogs.babble.com - 15 days ago
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Consumer Reports found BPA in the 19 common and popular packaged foods it tested -- including some very surprising ones.
SIGG’s BPA Confession: You aren’t going to like it any more than we do
zrecommends.com 8/21/2009 — Swiss sports and children's bottle maker SIGG has admitted what many consumer advocates have suspected for years, but never proven: That the epoxy lining used for years in SIGG bottles - which they secretly swapped out for a new liner last summer - contained the hormone-disrupting chemical ...
SIGG’s BPA Confession: You aren’t going to like what you hear
zrecommends.com 8/21/2009 — Swiss sports and children's bottle maker SIGG has admitted what many consumer advocates have suspected for years, but never proven: That the epoxy lining used for years in SIGG bottles - which they secretly swapped out for a new liner last summer - contained the hormone-disrupting chemical ...
Notes from SIGG’s Age of Innuendo
zrecommends.com 8/30/2009 — Last week, we wrote about SIGG's careful management of information in the years leading up to its announcement that the products many consumers had turned to to avoid the endocrine disrupting chemical bisphenol-A actually contained it . Their announcement marked the beginning of what now ...
Tell Del Monte: No more BPA!
enviroblog.org 8/11/2009 — Several months ago, EWG helped break news of a secret meeting convened at a fancy private club in Washington, where lobbyists from the chemical industry and food companies hatched a plot to mislead consumers about the risks of bisphenol-A (BPA), a toxic chemical used in many food containers. ...
SIGG, on the record: An interview with CEO Steve Wasik
zrecommends.com 9/1/2009 — SIGG made headlines when it announced that it had stopped producing aluminum water bottles with a lining that contained BPA. But they weren't the kind of headlines it wanted. Many consumers had already believed that SIGG bottles were BPA-free, and despite the lack of such explicit language in ...
BPA, its everywhere you don’t want it to be
crunchydomesticgoddess.com 9 days ago — This weekend as my friend Melissa was showing me her cool pressure canner and all of the foods she’s canned with it, we started talking about the presence of BPA in most store-bought canned goods. The presence of BPA (bisphenol-A) in canned ...
When it comes to “BPA-free,” consumers have nothing to fear but fear itself
zrecommends.com 8/18/2009 — The current status of bisphenol-A, which is teetering somewhere between near-unilateral corporate disavowal and a patchwork of outright bans, is what it is because we - parents, consumers, and part-time, practical activists - made it that way. That means we also have the power to decide what ...
Why Health Canada’s new BPA study has nothing but critics
zrecommends.com 8/3/2009 — Health Canada is in a fine mess at the moment, and there's only one way to unravel it. Trouble is, it involves opening up a controversial study about bisphenol-A in "BPA-free" plastics to scrutiny it may not be ready for.
Last month Health Canada published a study on bisphenol-A in ...
BPA: Will consumer revolt trump fangs-and-claws lobbying?
enviroblog.org 8/5/2009 —
Don't underestimate the power of a citizens' revolt.
No hearings. No votes. No PAC money. No lawyers. (Yes!) No lobbying, Advertising -- Facebook and Twitter, virtual and viral.
When it comes to cost, you can't beat zero.
And effective? Hey, big companies can stand to lose ...