More 'Safe' Water Bottles that are Actually Dangerous
Not long ago, SIGG announced that their aluminum water bottles,
which many people purchased to avoid the BPA found in plastic
bottles, actually contained BPA. Now it has come out that
Gaiam's aluminum water bottles -- the ones that were previously
labeled "BPA-free" -- actually leach BPA at 20 times the levels
that SIGG bottles did.
After being called out on the web on the BPA status of their "BPA-free" water bottles, Gaiam has quietly posted on its retail website data from independent lab test results that show BPA leaching levels at 23.8 parts per billion. These findings are more than 10 times the detection limit that SIGG provided in its own water bottle testing, and over 18 times more than the leaching levels found in independent studies of SIGG water bottles.
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