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: http://www.plasticalbatross.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PlasticEA_Study_ehp.1003220.pdf

: EA = ESTROGEN ACTIVITY

: "Results: Almost all commercially available plastic products
: we sampled—independent of the type of resin, product, or
: retail source—leached chemicals having reliably detectable EA,
: including those advertised as BPA free. In some cases, BPA-free
: products released chemicals having more EA than did
: BPA-containing products."

: There you go. Sketchy water bottle studies do seem to show BPA
: release diminishes with age. BPA was untested and now the BPA
: substitutes are untested leading to the question: should you use
: your old water bottles instead of new 'BPA free' water bottles?
: I would definitely use glass for baby bottles.

I used the hard plastic water containers for years. About the same time I was reading the first suggestions of chemicals leaching out from the plastic, I left a bottle in my car for a few days in the hot summer. When I opened it there was a substantial plastic smell-it's now spray painted yellow and has morphed into being my pee bottle.

I bought a couple of Keene all stainless steel water bottles, paying the somewhat higher cost for an all stainless bottle and have been using them ever since. Most of the stainless bottles, and all those with the cute flip tops have plastic caps-we are trying to avoid plastic aren't we? Some Keene bottles now have a plastic caps-look for all stainless.

Of course in 10-15 years we will be reading of all the crap that leaches out China stainless steel, but I'll be too old to care by then.

Dave

Dave