Wal-Mart Dumps BPA Bottles; More Studies Pan BPA
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 04.18.08
Bisphenol A has been a question for years, but the industry had the ear of government, billions of pounds of it are made each year and nothing ever happened. However, marketers aren't stupid; after the first Canadian reports earlier this week, retailers were pulling it off the shelves. Now it is happening in the States.
Wal-Mart to Pull Bottles Made With Chemical BPA Wal-Mart will stop selling baby bottles made with the controversial chemical bisphenol A in its U.S. stores early next year, a spokesman said yesterday. A spokeswoman for Target said the chain began testing glass baby bottles in its stores in January and offering them online in February. Babies R Us said its sales of glass bottles have increased fivefold since last spring. ::Washington Post
Bisphenol A can alter genes, study finds Bisphenol A, the widely used compound in polycarbonate plastic, has the ability to alter the activity of genes in normal breast cells in ways that resemble what is found in extremely dangerous breast cancers, according to a new study. ::Globe and Mail
Read Treehugger: Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This and BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles, Discovery Health: Fueling Baby: What to Feed Baby, and When"
FINALLY! What else do we carry our food around in that SEEMS safe, has always been labelled as safe and will eventually be labelled dangerous.
Milk jugs? Waxed cardboard? plastic food containers sold at "suburban product parties"?
Glad to see Walmart getting involved. It appears that they are taking the movement enviro-friendly seriously. Even if it's just a timely marketing ploy, other retailers will follow. Thanks for FINALLY caring Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart still does not care about you and I. They do, however, care very much for their profits and that is all they care about. They are worried that with the country moving toward green solutions that keeping products such as this on the market will hurt their bottom line. Don't get me wrong I am glad to see them do something, I just want to make sure people don't think it is because they care about us or the environment.