To BPA, or not to BPA

I’ve been using the Medela pump, and bottles, for the last several weeks.  Since Medela touts itself as a non-BPA bottle all over it’s website and materials, I was confident, secure, happy and smug that I was being a good mummy.

Not so fast your smugness.

Imagine my ire, fear and general FURY when I came across a post on www.Safbaby.com, that alerted me to fact that Health Canada (the Canadian version of the FDA), had in fact tested supposedly non-BPA bottles and found – oh, surprise, surprise, bloody BPA. All sorts of Cuban vulgarities were spewed, and on the phone was my smug mug within moments.

I got a hold of a fellow at Medela, sent him the offending links, asked him to cross his heart and hope to die (as I was ready to kill someone), that his bottles did NOT have BPA, and waited, with milk in GLASS Born Free bottles, for his response.  Though he tried to assure me on the phone that all Medela bottles were BPA free, this is the email – in it’s entirety, that he sent me back:

“Medela is committed to safety.

All Medela products that come into contact with breastmilk are manufactured with BPA-free materials.

We are looking into the recent Health Canada report.   Health Canada sent Medela the following statement “the Department has no concerns with respect to the safety of baby bottles made from non-polycarbonate plastic or bottle liners”

Independent health experts have also confirmed that at these reported miniscule trace amounts there would be no health risk associated with exposure.”

Now. I don’t know about you, but what the hell does “miniscule trace amounts” mean? I can tell you that it’s too expletive ambiguous for this green mama, and had me clutching my glass Born Free bottles like Dorothy Parker and the last glass of champagne at a New Years party.

Either ya does, or ya doesn’t. Period. The end. Full bloody unambiguous stop.

So.

I am still using the Medela pump, but you can bet your Hanro clad bum that I’m storing my sons milk in glass from now on as I’m tired of the lies.

Honestly.

These are INFANTS for blanks sake! “miniscule” adds up to body burden! The EXACT thing I’m trying to keep as bloody low as possible!

Anyway.

There you have it.

Fair and balanced reporting.

Over to you….