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ZRecs: Sigg Totally Knew It Had BPA In Its Aluminum Bottles All Along
Daddy Types —
Day-um, I'm sure glad I'm not a baby bottle manufacturer trying to pass my expensive aluminum gear off as BPA-free. Because I'd live in daily fear of Z Recommends totally busting me some day. And if I were the CEO of Sigg, that day would be today. Naturally, Jeremiah has all the details, including the two years of adamant-sounding BPA denials that sound like equivocating bullshit now that we know the company's aluminum bottles were, in fact, lined with a proprietary resin that did, in fact, contain BPA. [Sigg quietly changed the formulation last year, but continued to sell the ...
SIGG Bottles Had BPA All Along
Eco Child's Play —
... SIGG kept this cozy little secret by constantly releasing reassuring statements that their proprietary formula had been extensively tested and was never found to leach BPA. ...
BPA: 3 Things to Do with Your SIGG Bottle
The Dear Dr.MOZ Baby Blog —
... If you haven’t been to ZRecs lately, you would probably surprised to hear that none of the “3 Things to Do with Your SIGG Bottle” listed below include drinking water. As it turns out, the epoxy lining used in SIGG bottles for many years (bottles manufactured before Aug 2008) contained hormone-disrupting BPA (bisphenol-A). It appears that the company knew ...
Sick of the SIGG
superdumb supervillain —
... posted an informative, albeit disheartening, article about SIGG knowingly distributing water bottles that contained hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) . Shock! Horror!!! Don't these people know that new parents were buying their supposedly safe bottles in droves largely because of the BPA scare?! Unbelievable. Of course, ...
Sigg Waterbottles Contain BPA: Partial Truths, Lots of Money Made, and Parents Led Astray
Non Toxic Kids —
... For a detailed history of Sigg bottles, their liners and BPA (with lots of quotes and analysis from the intrepid Jeremiah at Zrecommends) visit this post. Attached to this post is all the carefully worded statements in Sigg documents about the liner. Jeremiah also astutely points out that Sigg was sitting on the knowledge that their products contain BPA for years, and carefully crafted their messages to hide that fact. ...
Your baby’s SIGG water bottle may contain BPA
Pregnancy & Baby Blog —
... into your water. That might be true, however, they’ve also had this big secret for years about what was in the liner inside their bottles. They’ve continually told consumers, that while the bottles were safe, they wouldn’t give away company secrets like what exactly the liner was made of and when some organizations accused them of having BPA in their bottles, SIGG got ultra cranky and made people talking about BPA in their bottles remove their name from anything having to do with the BPA mentions. Understandably this made consumers think that SIGG must not have BPA in their ...
HFCS in our food: an update
Self Made Mom —
I rarely use my blog to wax poetic about various causes as you all probably know. I’m just not that deep. But there are a few causes that I will advocate for:
BPA in bottles and other household products. And shame on you Sigg!
Excessive swag
Trying to be frugal (Which is impossible to be, by the way, when pregnant as I need to consume whatever food I want at whatever time and whatever the cost.)
And…
High Fructose Corn Syrup in our products (No blog post, but it ...
News: Free Ferry Rides, Annoying Husbands, Play Day, and BPA in SIGG bottles?
Mommy Poppins - Get more out of NYC with kids —
... As people have been fervently tossing their plastic water bottles and switching to aluminum, it turns out that SIGG water bottles may have BPA in their liners after all. But don't panic. Reliable third party tests verify that the SIGG bottles do not leach BPA. Z Recommends takes an in-depth look. ...
The big SIGG BPA letdown
Crunchy Domestic Goddess —
Water bottle manufacturer SIGG has found itself in the hot seat recently after they revealed that their bottles, which many environmentally-aware, health-conscious consumers and parents fell in love with, have actually contained bisphenol-A (BPA) all along. SIGG claims they never said their bottles were BPA-free, but only that they “did not leach BPA.”
Z Recommends was one of the first blogs to break the story with their very thorough and informative post:
“Swiss sports and children’s bottle maker SIGG has admitted what ...
Sigg reveals BPA in bottle lining prior to August 2008
Type-A Mom —
... children and adults have daily exposures to BPA. Adult exposures have been linked to risk of diabetes and heart disease and BPA may interfere with cancer treatment. BPA-containing liners of liquid formula-can may expose formula-fed babies to unacceptable levels of the chemical. Polycarbonate water bottles are a significant source of adult exposure and stainless steel or aluminum bottles like Sigg's are often recommended to avoid BPA. Sigg secretive about bottle liner composition Sigg is under fire for declining to confirm the presence of BPA in responding to the many ...
No more Sigg bottles for this family
EnviroMom —
... By now I'm sure that most of you have heard that the resin lining in Sigg bottles does indeed contain BPA. This news was ...
The New Bad Boy on the BPA Block
Strollerderby —
... That’s twenty TIMES the amount of BPA that was found in the Sigg bottles. And, yes, these were bottles being marketed as “BPA-free.” ...
