toxic baby bottle report

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to professionals, parents, grandparents - any interested parties - from our

national LDAA office

Toxic Baby Bottle Report to be featured on Today Show and Good Morning

America on Thursday, February 7th

NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America are expected to run stories

on Thursday morning, February 7, on a new study showing that the toxic

chemical Bisphenol A leaches from major brand baby bottles when heated, or

when hot liquids are poured into the bottles. The study tested major brands

Avent, Dr. Brown's, Evenflo and The First Year's Disney character bottle.

The bottles were purchased from Target, Walgreens, Wal-Mart and CVS stores

across the country.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a toxic chemical found in hard, polycarbonate plastics.

BPA mimics estrogen in the body and disrupts the human hormonal system. In

animal studies, BPA shows adverse health effects related to breast and

prostate cancer, thyroid disease, early puberty in girls, attention deficit

and hyperactivity disorder, diabetes and obesity. These effects in animals

occur even at very low doses of Bisphenol A. BPA exposure is widespread and

has been found in 95% of Americans tested, at levels that are within the

range that is linked to serious health effects in animals.

BPA is also used in food can linings, Nalgene bottles, the linings of baby

formula cans and other products. It has been a year since a similar study

release by Environment California showed BPA leaching from baby bottles. A

coalition of environmental and public health organizations that includes LDA

is calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of BPA in baby bottles.

For more information, see the next issue of Newsbriefs for an article on

Bisphenol A and LDA's role in opposing its use.

Maureen Swanson

LDA's Healthy Children Project