When pressed last summer as towhether the liner in SIGG bottles contained any BPA at all, the company said itwasn’t free to discuss the matter, due to an agreement with its liner supplierto keep the materials found in the bottles a secret. At the time, Replica Franck Muller watches Wasik also stated that thecompany was looking for a new liner supplier for its bottles. We didnt own the formula, Wasik says. That put us in a position where we couldnt be as transparent as we wanted to be...In hindsight we should have done that sooner, even if it meant breaking that agreement with that supplier.Last month, the company more candidly acknowledged that itsoriginal liners did contain BPA, and that it started using a BPAfree versionlast year.
The company has been working to develop an alternative liner sinceJune 2006, at a cost of $1 million, and quietly began using the new BPAfree“EcoCare” liner in Replica Zenith watches all of its aluminum bottles in August 2008. After SNEWS broke the story August 19, and Wasik issued twoletters changing and clarifying the company’s previous statements about thepresence of BPA in its products, and apologizing to consumers. Read them here.
According to SNEWS, Laken was clear about the presence of BPA in its liners to anyone who took the time to ask them. Read CEO Greg Garriguess letter to customers on the issue. The FDA has maintained its stance that foodcontactmaterials containing BPA are safe, but it convened a task force in April 2008to study emerging science on the issue. In September 2008, the NationalToxicology Program, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,published a 321page report that said the Replica Cartier watches agency had “some concern for theeffects on the brain, behavior and prostate gland in infants, and children atcurrent human exposure levels to bisphenol A.”—JUSTIN NYBERG
