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Similarly, PriceGrabber notes that parents who buy Fashion Tint bottles from Gerber GRB can "can feel good about using them" because they are "made of a polypropylene plastic and are BPA free and PVC free." This makes you wonder how parents who use other Gerber bottles that aren't explicitly BPA free should feel. During a sale that's going on right now BabyCenter is offering a few BPA-free bottles from Medela and Nuby alongside a plethora of questionable options from Dr. Brown's, Avent and others. Again, the result of jumbling one or two alternative bottles in among all the polycarbonates is that eschewing BPA seems like just another consumer option rather than an important differentiation. The Z Recommends blog has a good round up that enumerates which bottles from major brands are safe and which aren't. It also grades makers of baby products on their commitment to BPA-free products and their willingness to discuss the issue. Among the companies receiving a "poor" are popular brands like Avent and Hasbro's HAS Playskool. Gerber, Energizer's ENR Playtex, Rubbermaid NWL and Munchkin, which is sold at Target TGT, all received "fair" grades for having a mixed bag of products. Until the baby products industry catches up with the news at least parents can head to the stores armed with more information than ever.
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