Natural Moms Podcast #80

April 21, 2008

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This week on the show, I spoke with Jeremiah McNichols of ZRECS . Jeremiah and his wife Jennifer are bloggers and parents of a 3 year old daughter. Their website offers the “BPA Mobile Project” to consumers for free - all it costs is whatever your texts cost you based on your cell phone plan. Z Recommends foots the bill for the service!

bpa free bottles The problem with trying to find out which products are BPA free on your own is that the information from the companies is not always clear or easy to obtain. ZRECS provides a valid source of info about what products contain BPA.

If you want to know what companies you can trust, their text messaging service instantly educates parents and guides you to BPA free product choices. To use the service, simply text zrecs and the company name to 69866.

If you’re unfamiliar with BPA, here’s the scoop. BPA (Bisphenol A) is an ingredient of many common plastics - plastics used to make bottles, milk containers, and water bottles. It’s also used for the lining of food and drink cans, styrofoam and PVC products. The problem with it is that it’s a hormone mimic that upsets natural hormone levels and causes genetic damage and miscarriages in lab rats. BPA leaches from plastic bottles into the food or drink inside. Researchers have known since the 30’s that BPA mimicked estrogen!

(Reference: Organic Housekeeping )

More on BPA: BPA in Baby Bottles - what’s the danger?

Foogo BPA Free Sippy Cup Review

 
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