citizenpip Reusable Lunch Kits - Soup to Nuts Kit
citizenpip.com 8/17/2009 — SOUP TO NUTS KIT $55.00 Select lunch bag style: Select quantity: THE SOUP TO NUTS KIT INCLUDES: The Soup to Nuts Kit gives you lots of options for packing lunch. With four BPA-free airtight food containers, including one that perfectly fits a ...

Citizenpip: Green Lunch Kits (giveaway and coupon code!)
non-toxickids.net 9/28/2009 — I happily received this Soup to Nuts waste free lunch kit from Citizenpip . I've quickly adopted it to be my lunch kit, and it has worked very well. I feel especially green and snazzy when I remember to add one of the cloth napkins with the kit so I am completely waste free. But let me back ...

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 ...

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 ...

SIGG Bottles Had BPA All Along : Eco Child’s Play
ecochildsplay.com 8/22/2009 — SIGG bottles, long upheld as the standard by which all non-plastic drink bottles should be compared, favourite of hippies and eco-gurus, juggernaut and arguably the biggest player in the metal bottle industry, has finally fessed up . Their ...

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 ...

Lead Poisoning from Paint Still a Kids Safety Issue
ecochildsplay.com 8/26/2009 — Despite US restrictions on lead levels in paint, including a tougher law that debuted this month, lead poisoning due to consumer paint is still an issue. Why? Much of our paint comes from other countries. Read more of this story »

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday is National Depression Screening Day — Booster Shots 10/7/2009
People who wish to be screened for depression can do so Thursday, Oct. 8, at one of 1,000 sites nationwide or by completing an online questionnaire. The annual screening day is sponsored by major mental health organizations, including the ...

How does your state's healthcare rank? — Booster Shots 10/8/2009
The cost of healthcare, quality of healthcare, access to healthcare and overall outcomes related to healthcare ... they vary from state to state. Surprised? No. Interested in the details? The Commonwealth Fund is here for you. Its second state  ...

Check the expiration date on foods — Booster Shots 10/8/2009
A study of Los Angeles food markets has found high numbers of products with expired freshness dates. The study was conducted primarily in markets in low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles, but it's possible the sale of expired foods is a problem ...