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zrecommends.com - 19 days ago
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Gaiam admits aluminum bottles leach BPA at nearly 20 times SIGG’s levels
Class action lawsuit filed against Gaiam for BPA in aluminum water bottles
zrecommends.com - 17 days ago
Class action lawsuit filed against Gaiam for BPA in aluminum water bottles
— zrecommends.com — Lawyers in Gaiam's home state of Colorado filed suit last week seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against Gaiam for BPA in their aluminum water bottles . ZRecs broke the story accusing Gaiam of hiding BPA in their water bottles , followed it up by breaking the story of Gaiam's admission ... (more) Class action lawsuit filed against Gaiam for BPA in ...

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Toxic chemicals and you: In search of 'safe'
Enviroblog — ... Mama, and many, many others. So what gives? Why are so many people seeking safer products? Oh right. It's because they don't know what's safe anymore. They don't trust their government to protect them because until very recently it has done so very little. And they don't trust industry to be honest with them. Why not? Because government is not sufficiently regulating chemicals or product safety and the companies are greenwashing. As may of us are now saying parents shouldn't have to be ...

BPA Found in Cans Marked BPA-Free
MomsRising Blog — ... Jeremiah McNichols from Z Recommends recently published an exclusive report that provided extensive evidence that Gaiam water bottles previously marketed as “BPA-free” were likely to contain the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A. Shortly afterwards, the company quietly added information to its retail website which admits to independent lab test results showing leaching levels at 23.8 parts per billion. These findings are more than ten times the detection limit SIGG said revealed no leaching from their own bottles and over 18 times more than the leaching ...

Why, oh why is there plastic in my aluminum water bottle?
Enviroblog — Not so long ago, many of us were happily - and possibly a little smugly - sipping water from our reusable aluminum water bottles. Including my kids (such cute designs, right?). Until, that is, we learned that Sigg and Gaiam bottles weren't exactly the BPA-free solution we had spent all that money on. Naturally we rushed to dump them, exchange them, find something safer (and preferably cheaper!). And we heard the understandable question that rang throughout consumerland: Why, oh why is there plastic in my ...

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