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Eco-Friendly Products: 5 Phases Shatter Resistant Glass Baby Bottles

September 29, 2011

Our mothers and grandmothers were raised with glass baby bottles, but the current generation of parents worry about the safety of plastic chemicals and the risks of glass breaking. 5 Phases has a solution: I was inspired to create this bottle when my own baby was diagnosed with a birth defect. Because of information and [...]

Eco-Friendly Products: 5 Phases Shatter Resistant Glass Baby Bottles is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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From Parentables: Bisphenol A Found In Canned Soup Marketed To Kids

September 27, 2011

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A new study from the Breast Cancer Fund shows that BPA is found in canned foods marketed specifically to kids. This should be no surprise to TreeHugger readers; we have been talking about BPA lining cans for years. All…

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BPA is not “M’m mm good”

August 12, 2011

By Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Do you eat Campbell’s? Then you’re eating BPA. BPA is used in virtually all canned food and beverage linings, but it’s been linked to breast cancer, male sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver abnormalities, and more. Rightly so, consumers are concerned about BPA and many [...]

BPA is not “M’m mm good” is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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BPA is not “M’m mm good”

August 12, 2011

By Janelle Sorensen, Chief Communications Officer, Healthy Child Healthy World Do you eat Campbell’s? Then you’re eating BPA. BPA is used in virtually all canned food and beverage linings, but it’s been linked to breast cancer, male sexual dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver abnormalities, and more. Rightly so, consumers are concerned about BPA and many [...]

BPA is not “M’m mm good” is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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New MU Study: BPA “Demasculinized” Mice Making Them Undesirable

June 28, 2011

The University of Missouri, where I earned my Master’s in Education, has been at the forefront in exposing Bisphenol-A dangers.  Frederick vom Saal, professor of biological sciences, exposed BPA in 2005 making such strong statements as: “The science is clear and the findings are not just scary, they are horrific.  When you feed a baby out [...]

New MU Study: BPA “Demasculinized” Mice Making Them Undesirable is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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FDA Chemists: BPA in 90% of Canned Food

May 26, 2011

I find canned food to be the worse option when it comes to quick meals.  Not only are the vegetables usually mushy, the risk of BPA exposure keeps me away from most canned foods. Four years ago, I wrote a post about canned food and BPA during my early days of blogging.  This post caught [...]

FDA Chemists: BPA in 90% of Canned Food is a post from: Eco Child's Play

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Update on BPA and Little Beards in Maine…It’s BIG News and It’s Thanks to You!

May 17, 2011

So I promised to give you an update on the bill to ban BPA in Maine and Governor LePage’s little beards comment, so here it is…and might I just say it is some big news and it’s all thanks to…

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Appleton Responds To Questions About Safety of BPA Free Thermal Paper

May 12, 2011

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I recently quoted from Dominique Browning’s article in the New York Times about substitutes for Bisphenol A. Browning suggested that Appleton’s BPA free thermal paper was made with a substitute, Bisphenol S, that was not yet su…

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Banning BPA Is One Thing, But What About Its Replacements?

May 10, 2011

Dominique Browning writes an important article in the New York Times about the problem of getting rid of Bisphenol A (BPA) but replacing it with alternatives that may not be any better, or in fact might be worse. For example, TreeHugger has written p…

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The Real Reason Why Coca-Cola Isn’t Ditching Bisphenol A

April 29, 2011

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Ariel Schwartz writes at Fast Company: Why Coca-Cola Isn’t Ditching BPA, the chemical that has been linked everything from breast cancer in women to breast growth on men, noting that “the stuff is re…

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