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Okay, so I had a nice warm and fuzzy post all ready to be typed up about our week and my chocolate zucchini cake recipe but I had to set it aside momentarily to share some shocking news about SIGG water bottles and the fact that they had been using BPA (Bisphenol A) a hormone disrupting chemical  in the liner of their bottles!

When BPA first became big headlines alerting everyone to the unsafe amounts of it that were leaching into our children's plastic baby bottles, water cups and more I went on a quest to find a safer alternative to the regular plastic drink cups for all three of my children.

The Swiss company SIGG was one of the front runners as a safe choice for children's drink bottles so of course I bought one. I was concerned that they were made of aluminum but was assured that they were completely safe as they had a protective coating which would keep the liquids from coming in contact with the aluminum and it was BPA FREE.

It now turns out that all of those SIGG water bottles that we all snapped up prior to August 2008 did in fact contain a water‐based epoxy liner which contained BPA!!

But that's not the real kicker...

Why have they been sitting on this knowledge since August 2008 which was when Sigg quietly changed the formulation last year to their new "next generation 'EcoCare' liner," which is "100% free of BPA, phthalates, BADGE, BFDGE, and NOGE"? Shouldn't this have been made public knowledge right away so that we could have stopped purchasing the older bottles that were still being sold with the BPA liners or at least made an informed descision as to which liner we really wanted to trust our children's beverages to be served in?? I sure think it should have been!

If you're not sure what bottle liner your SIGG bottle has there is a really handy photo over at Z-Recommends illustrating the older liner that is shiny and brassy looking versus the new EcoCare liner that is a creamy color. Unfortunately ours is definitely an older model :( You can also read more of the nitty gritty details behind all of this contraversy there.

Now to be fair SIGG claims that these liners have been tested and that they do not actually leach any BPA but if you were buying new bottles to avoid BPA entirely why in the world would you take a chance and purchase anything with it?!

Sorry SIGG....

Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice, shame on me. I just don't think I can trust you anymore.

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Posted by MoreLittleWilsons

I guess that's why we shouldn't jump on band wagons.. I'm still drinking the Real Canadian water in a bottle from Superstore.. I just read about the health hazard that is chlorine in our water, as was glad to find out that the Real Canadian water is ozonated.. and now I'm buying a burkey filter for purifying our house water.. and will drink that once it arrives..the burkey is an OLD tried and true product, but I guess then too, I'll have to work on finding water storage/serving items... that have no BPAs... Corporations lie too.. isn't that sad. I just looked up whether Tim Hortons has MSG in it's coffee.. it says not.. but are they lying? I want to know if there's MSG in Alphagetti - my kids seem addicted to the stuff..

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