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Mat Leave Drama, Dangerous Daycares and More

Each Friday, we dish out the best news stories of the week to help keep you in the loop. As if finding quality childcare and dealing with sleep deprivation isn't enough for for moms to worry about, more Canadian women are facing pink slips when ...

5 Ways to Get Harmful Chemicals Out of Your Child's Life

Since having kids, it seems like the amount of toxic chemicals in my world has increased exponentially. Every week, there's a new and terrible danger to children's health being trumpeted in the media, from plastics to preservatives. At times I ...

FDA finds BPA OK

In a draft report recently issued, the Federal Drug Administration has concluded that Bisphenol A is safe --at least when used in food containers. Commonly known as BPA to consumers, the chemical can be found in all sorts of children's products as ...

Parents sue baby bottle makers

Remember how it came out that the bisphenol-A found in many baby bottles was, according to one study, was dangerous and linked to cancer, obesity, diabetes? Now a group of parents in Ohio have sued five companies, claiming that the manufacturers knew ...

FDA takes on BPA

The Federal Drug Administration has officially made a statement concerning their slant on BPA, the chemical found in much plastic and a lot of baby bottles. BPA, full name bisphenol A has been under fire for some time as being dangerous to young ...

How to tell if your plastic bottle is safe

Earlier this week, the Today Show did a segment on a topic that is beginning to get a lot of attention: the safety of reusable plastic bottles. Concerns about the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), which is found in many plastic bottles, has led the ...

Baby bottles toxic?

Before I even thought about what feeding apparatus other than the breast I might offer my son I started hearing about possible toxins in baby bottles. Glass bottles I heard, once a thing of the past found mostly in antique stores, were making a ...

The Z Report: A comprehensive sippy cup and bottle guide

I recently wrote about my time consuming search for Bisphenol A-free sippy cups for Wito and the wealth of information I found at Z Recommends blog. Well, I'm happy to report that Z Recommends has updated and revised all of the information, which now ...

Safer sippy cups

Several reports, including this one, have been published about the dangers of industrial chemicals ending up in our children's bodies. Bisphenol-A and plastic softening agents such as phthalates are commonly found in many baby bottles and sippy cups ...

Legal action over plastic baby bottles

We've written before about shrapnels of controversy surrounding plastic baby bottles. As Sandy Maple wrote earlier this month, an ingredient in plastic bottles called Bisphenol A has been linked to the early onset of puberty, weight gain, and more ...

Glass baby bottles making a comeback

In February, Roger wrote about a study showing that plastic baby bottles, when heated, leach a toxic chemical called Bisphenol A. This chemical mimics estrogen and has been linked to abnormalities in the mammary and prostrate glands as well as the ...

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