Healthy, Safe Baby Bottles | BPA and PVC Free
The Eclectic Grocer is proud to introduce the Kinetic Baby Safe line of glass baby bottles. Baby Safe Bottles are both BPA and PVC free, meaning you can use them without worry for your newborn.
Research suggests that BPA’s may endanger your child during their formative years. While like with all science, 
opinions on this vary, we believe that given the choice, it’s better to use completely BPA Free Feeding Bottles.
What is BPA?
Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial chemical used primarily to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. There is concern that long term low dose exposure to Bisphenol A may induce chronic toxicity in humans. This toxic chemical is released into your food when heated in the microwave or oven with traditional plastic food storage containers. Your best defense is to use a BPA free plastic (or glass) food storage system.
More info on BPA’s
Bisphenol A (or Bisphenyl A), commonly abbreviated as BPA, is an organic compound with two phenol functional groups. It is a difunctional building block of several important plastics and plastic additives.
Suspected of being hazardous to humans since the 1930s, concerns about the use of bisphenol A inconsumer products were regularly reported in the news media in 2008 after several governments issued reports questioning its safety, and some retailers have removed products made of it from their shelves.
Further, the article suggests that there are in fact negative impacts on infants that are exposed to BPA’s:
In September, the National Toxicology Program finalized their report on bisphenol A, finding “some concern”, mid-point of a five-level scale, that infants were at risk from exposure to the chemical.[28]
At that time, the FDA reassured consumers that current limits were safe, but convened an outside panel of experts to review the issue. The Lang study was also released that month, and David Melzer, a co-author of the study, presented the results of the study before the FDA panel.[146]
The editorial accompanying the Lang study’s publication in JAMA criticized the FDA’s assessment of bisphenol A: “A fundamental problem is that the current ADI [acceptable daily intake] for BPA is based on experiments conducted in the early 1980s using outdated methods (only very high doses were tested) and insensitive assays. More recent findings from independent scientists were rejected by the FDA, apparently because those investigators did not follow the outdated testing guidelines for environmental chemicals, whereas studies using the outdated, insensitive assays (predominantly involving studies funded by the chemical industry) are given more weight in arriving at the conclusion that BPA is not harmful at current exposure levels.”[22]
The Union of Concerned Scientists similarly criticized the agency saying, “We’re concerned that the FDA is basing its conclusion on two studies while downplaying the results of hundreds of other studies…. This appears to be a case of cherry-picking data with potentially high cost to human health.”
You can see the full line of BPA Free Products offered by the Eclectic Grocer here:
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