Although the Canadian goverment said that BPA is not healthy for baby’s still lots of the things related to babies is still containing BPA.
Future parents be aware of what you buy for you child and tell you friends that you don’t like anything containing BPA.
Even things like baby bottles and breastmilk pumps still contain BPA!
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Lets revisit one of our older topics that seem to get a lot of attention here at The Mess We Made and all over the world namely the BPA bad plastics.
As you may know by now the Canadian Government official stated that BPA in infant products is toxic and even before they officially announced that lots of retailers started pulling there Bisphenol-a products (plastic nr 7).
So after all that news the last while I still was stuck with some of my old BPA water bottles and what do you do with those?
I heard that some retailers would take them back so I tried. Zellers didn’t take my bottles back but they will exchange baby bottles that contain BPA for once that don’t. Then Canadian Tire the girl there was willing to do it if I had a receipt and that left me to my last visit SportChek the people at SportChek where not really happy that I didn’t have a receipt but they gave me money back for my bottles and gave me store credit for it. They officially only take back bottles that where bought there but that didn’t stop me from trying and no problem for me to get money back for bottles I bought somewhere else.
My advice if you still have some Bisphenol-A containing bottles that you are not using then why not return them so that the stores at least can recycle them for something useful (I hope that is what happens with them).
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Canada Bans Plastic Bottles Tied to Health Concerns
There is a concern about plastic baby bottles.
As you may well know is that plastic bottles that contain Bisphenol A are not very healthy for you, but now there is evidence that if you heat your baby bottle it will leak even more Bisphenol A.
Bisphenol A is linked to lots of damage that it could do to your body from reproductive damage to cancer.
Of course there are things you can do about it. One of them is to check if you plastic bottles contain Bisphenol A and that should be easy to find out. Just check under the bottle and look for a small recycle triangle and in that triangle it has a number if that number is 7 then the product contains Bisphenol A.
My advice try to feed you baby with glass as in my view it is the best and safest alternative.
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How does the world go one if we already poison our babies?
In a new study on babies researchers found low levels of phthalates. This man made chemical is used in common baby products like Shampoos, baby powders and lotions.
As now known by scientists Phthalates is linked to changes in reproductive hormones and other possible health effects.
Doesn’t that make you wonder what will happen with the next generation of humans. What else are we breaking and even more important what other kinds of medical conditions do we create by changing hormones in children this young.
Health Canada is also starting a new 2 year study about phthaltes in cosmetics.
It makes you wonder if we would have stopped inventions like 50 years ago how much healthier our world could have bin. And it also makes me wonder how we are gone survive these kind of things without getting sick of it one way or another.
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