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Posts tagged “BPA”

Alert! Older SIGG Bottles Contain BPA

We've written here before about SIGG water bottles — promoting them as a great alternative to plastic water bottles. So we were pretty shocked when we read this morning at Inhabitat that SIGG bo...

BPA May Interfere with Chemotherapy

One more reason to purge your kitchen cabinets of recyclable plastics marked with the number 7 and cut back on the canned goods: BPA, which may be an ingredient in plastic containers, and which is als...

FDA Issues Statement on Safety of Plastic Bottle Chemical BPA

We've covered the BPA scare before: looking into plastic bottles and siding with the view that we're better safe than sorry.As a result, we've made some changes, particularly in the way we store food ...

It's Not That Complicated: Bisphenol-A [BPA]

We've covered the trouble with BPA before: it's the plastic ingredient and endocrine disrupter that has people throwing out everything from baby bottles to Nalgene brand bottles. It seems more and mor...

August Best Posts: Six Pack Business Cards, Flea Control, and Cleaning with White Vinegar

How to turn a six pack into business cards; our failed attempt to control fleas without pesticides; and on cleaning with white vinegar… [links after the jump]...