By kirra
May 13, 2008
| Ruedi Schubarth wrote: According to this, you would have to eat 1300 pounds of food a day to come in contact with enough BPA to cause any effect: http://www.bisphenol-a.org/human/polyplastics.html
Ruedi, bear in mind the owner of this domain "www.bisphenol-a.org" is an industry lobby group called the American Chemical Council
The ACC is in tight with the EPA and recently a top scientist and award winning toxicologist, Deborah Rice was let go for speaking her mind against deca, a widely used flame-retardant. Quoted from article,"Environmentalists accuse the EPA of a "dangerous double standard," because under the Bush administration, many pro-industry experts have served on the agency's scientific panels.
The Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, reviewed seven EPA panels created last year and found 17 panelists who were employed or funded by the chemical industry or had made public statements that the chemicals they were reviewing were safe. In one example, an Exxon Mobil Corp. employee served on an EPA expert panel responsible for deciding whether ethylene oxide, a chemical manufactured by Exxon Mobil, is a carcinogen.
The article/link you supplied references studies done by the EPA.
Things seem to be getting messy with a Letter going out from officials demanding answers as BPA research investigation continues. a) article explaining letter -- b) PDF letter |  |
By Tom Hanson
From Castle Rock, CO
May 14, 2008
| Oh no. I have used Nalgene bottles for a quarter century.
"Dangerous" sports never killed me, but now I discover that those evil, insidious Nalgene products will be the reason for my demise.
This is so disturbing that I'm going to start buying my cheap bourbon in glass bottles from this point forward. | |
By Mark Nelson
From Coniferous, CO
May 14, 2008
| I got a Sigg from the gang at Wild Xch. I'm such a lemming, but the can is so cool. | |
By Not So Famous Old Dude
From Denver, CO
May 14, 2008
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What if I sip boiling DMHO from a BPA-impregnated Nalgene bottle? | |
By kirra
May 14, 2008
| Not So Famous Old Dude wrote: What if I sip boiling DMHO from a BPA-impregnated Nalgene bottle?
you become a 'critter-hater' :) | |
By Eastvillage
From New York, NY
May 14, 2008
| This "problem" doesn't seem like one at all. Water never seems to be in a nalgene bottle very long, hardly long enough to concern me or warrant tossing perfectly good TEMPORARY water containers that work extremely well for climbing, that are extremely durable.
I'm sure the pollutants you inhale from the road trip to the mountains is worse than the what might get into you from a nalgene bottle. | |
By Not So Famous Old Dude
From Denver, CO
May 14, 2008
| kirra wrote: you become a 'critter-hater' :)
Oh, I'm all better now since I've been taking my Thorazine. I love those burly raptors now. I wish they'd just close all the climbs forever and then I could sit in my lawn chair with my binoculars and admire them diving and swooping all day, while sipping my Thorazine laced DMHO juice from my BPA-laden Nalgene bottle. | |
By Mark Nelson
From Coniferous, CO
May 14, 2008
| In the words of South Park: Blame Canada! | |
By kirra
May 14, 2008
| REI pulls bottles
maybe we should all run out and buy more BPA bottles -- could be "collectors-items" someday... ha..! | |
By Stymingersfink
May 14, 2008
| Not So Famous Old Dude wrote: What if I sip boiling DMHO from a BPA-impregnated Nalgene bottle?
Funny you should mention that. It was the first solution mentioned in an email I recently received suggesting several AMAZING HOME REMEDIES!!
I'll forward that on to you now.
You too, Kirra. | |
By kirra
May 14, 2008
| oh thank you so very much Mr fingers...:) | |
By Josh Audrey
From LAS VEGAS
May 14, 2008
| send all my hardest climb all jacked up on BPA plastic bottles, but I also place aliens on lead too so I'm sort of a double threat. | |
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