Luckily there are bpa-free alternatives springing up online like:
http://www.playtexba
by.com/bpafree/info.
html - Playtex has bpa-free baby bottles
http://www.titanwate
rbottle.com sells bpa-free reusable water bottles for adults.

I'm looking for BPA-free food storage containers . Does anyone know of a good retailer for those?

Billy

Richard Harling is quite mistaken. It is quite obvious he does not understand the relationship between BPA, Estrodiol and the human endocrine system. He is dangerously mistaken. It takes one tenth of one trillionth of a gram of extra Bisphenol-a to cause the prostate of a fetal mouse to grow the same amount in 24 hours as it does for the prostate of a grown man in 70 years.

And while he is correct in saying breast is best, if the breast milk contains petroleum-based chemicals, harm can be done. Fortunately we have unbiased scientists and small businesses who pay no mind to Petroleum, Plastic and Chemical Industry clout.

There are many great alternatives to products with BPA and Phthalates.

I will list what my family uses and a source beneath it:

1 - We used Ball jars to store all of our food. (garage sales, a local grocery)
2 - Now we use glass refrigerator dishes that I stock in the store.
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/glfost
.html

3 -I froze all of my daughter's breast milk and homemade baby food in 4 oz glass
jelly jars and was careful to leave room at the top so the glass wouldn't break.
4 - glass baby bottles
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/weekit
chen.html

5 - My daughter's sippy cups are the safest form of stainless steel and made by Klean Kanteen
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/togo.h
tml

6 - Our water bottles are also Klean Kanteen
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/togo.h
tml

7 - We source cosmetics stored in glass and non-BPA plastics.
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/shopbo
dy.html
http://www.afterglow
cosmetics.com/

8 - All of my daughters toys are eco-painted wood, organic cotton or wool
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com/shopto
ys.html
http://www.blueberry
forest.com/

9 - we avoid plastic wrappers and get much of our food from a local organic farm. It is clean, super high quality food and easy to do. Kids LOVE it! Many farms near all of us have programs called CSA's where you can get a box of in-season veggies w/great recipes once a week by paying a set fee, or making payments through out the year. Insurance companies such as Unity, Physicians Plus, GHC and many others will offer a rebate for folks joining CSAs. Find your local CSA:
http://www.localharv
est.org/

10 - we use stainless coffee mugs instead of disposeable paper and plastic - can be found at any coffee chop

11 - avoid wearing polycarbonate glasses and lenses on your face and get hip glasses made of metal or... sustainable WOOD with glass lenses.
http://www.iwoodecod
esign.com/iWood_cont
ent.html

12 - buy canned goods from companies that do not line their cans with BPA like Eden Foods and Trader Joes.

13 - avoid supporting the making of Polycarbonate( Bisphenol-A) Compact Discs by purchasing songs digitally and downloading them onto your computer or IPOD.

14 - If you smoke cigarettes - smoke the ones without the filters that contain plastic. If not - you double the harm done!

TO READ THE ORIGINAL PBS INTERVIEW WITH THE SCIENTIST WHO BROKE THE NEWS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF BPA GO HERE:

http://www.pbs.org/w
gbh/pages/frontline/
shows/nature/intervi
ews/vomsaal.html


Hope this helps! I opened my store specifically to offer people a stress-free marketplace that specializes in alternatives to products containing petroleum- based, cancer-causing chemicals.

Kind Regards,

Amelia Royko Maurer
http://www.freemarke
torganics.com



the "If this is going to cause harm it's usually going to require high doses over a long period of time. I would want to send a message to parents not to panic.

The stress of worrying about the effect of chemicals and additives is probably far more harmfull than the chemicals and addetives themselves!

I have heard that red wine can react with the bottles and can cause harmful chemicals to be released. So I've started to get my 5 month year old white wine instead

Good move Stu - tho other reports say red wine is actually beneficial to health
so the positive effect of the red wine may actually out weigh the detrimental effects of the chemicals it releases
cheers!