(Photo courtesy SIGG)If you’re scratching your head about all this, here’s somebackground. Concerns over BPA grew in late 2007 and early 2008 aswidelypublicized studies suggested the chemical might cause health effects,especially in infants. replica watch gift At the time, most polycarbonate (plastic) water bottles,such as those from popular plasticbottlemaker Nalgene, contained smallamounts of BPA in the plastic. Though there is still disagreement about whatlevel of exposure is harmful in humans—and how much we’re exposed to byconsuming products held in polycarbonate or aluminum bottles—consumer backlashwas forceful. Bottle companies scrambled to scrap their old polycarbonate linesand convert to plastics that don’t contain BPA, or to stainless steel, which isnaturally BPAfree.
Many consumers also flocked to aluminum bottle companies like SIGG and Laken, assuming that the bottles were, like stainless steel, free of BPA. But as SNEWS recently reported, all aluminum bottles on themarket were coated with an epoxy Replica Audemars Piguet watches liner that contain BPA, with no exceptions,until both companies made the change in August 2008. (Many generic aluminum bottlescontinue to be coated with epoxy, and BPA is also commonly found in the liners of soda andfood cans, as well as some plastic baby bottles.)
SIGG was always careful not to use the terms “BPAfree” todescribe its original aluminum bottles, as Outside reported in our August 2008 issue, in a piece byJason Kerkmans. Rather, CEO Steve Wasik would say only that the company haddetected no BPA Replica Chopard watches leaching into water stored in SIGG bottles.We were never promoting our bottles as BPA free. We were promoting our bottles as leach free, Wasik reiterated to OutsideOnline today. In all our testing there was no trace of BPA leaching into our water.That was the concern consumers had then. These days, there is a lot ofdiscussion about the mere presence of BPA in bottles. Its for these consumers that were offering the exchangeprogram.
