Don’t Give a Fig about Sigg

I have just tossed our two Sigg bottles that I bought hoping to avoid the BPA that we would be exposed to by using plastic water bottles. 

This was of particular importance to me as I am pregnant, and I TRUSTED these bottles to spare me the anxiety of drinking out of plastic for these critical months.

My trust was misplaced.

Last week, Sigg issued this statement which claims that only post August 2008 Sigg bottles are ACTUALLY BPA free – I missed this earlier statement last year as I was not pregnant, and quite frankly, didn’t care – in which it seems that they do admit the possible presence of BPA in thier bottles.

Why do I care as a pregnant woman?  BPA (Bisphenol A), is an endocrine disruptor, it can mimic the body’s own hormones, which is increasingly being linked to sexual organ development and:

“The first study of bisphenol A’s effects on humans was published in September 2008 by Iain Lang and colleagues in the Journal of the American Medical Association.^[11][59]The cross-sectional study of almost 1,500 people assessed exposure to bisphenolA by looking at levels of the chemical in urine. The authors found that high bisphenol A levels were significantly associated with heart disease, diabetes, and abnormally high levels of certain liver enzymes. An editorialin the same issue notes that while this preliminary study needs to be confirmed and cannot prove causality, there is precedent for analogous effects in animal studies, which “add[s] biological plausibility to the results reported by Lang et al.” SOURCE

If you see anyone with the children’s versions, do make sure – even if you look a right loon, to ask the parents if they have heard about the statement.

Lesson #5: You can only trust glass.