When scientists for Health Canada tested BPA-free baby bottles to see if any of the chemical leached into water, they got some surprising results. Some BPA-free bottles from well-known brands leached trace amounts of BPA into water, and also into a 10 percent ethanol solution. Health Canada did these tests as part of research into the country's eventual ban on BPA. Bottles from Dr. Brown's, Medela, Adiri, Whittlestone, Gerber and Nuby, among others, were found to leach traces of BPA into water or an ethanol solution at some point in the testing timeline.
The Vancouver Sun quotes Environmental Health Sciences researcher Pete Myers as saying that "the trace levels that they were detecting in these non BPA-based bottles are really truly trace levels." Myers goes on to say that these trace levels of BPA are not a big cause for concern, and likely don't pose a significant risk to baby's health.
However, how these traces of BPA ended up in BPA-free bottles is a bit of a mystery that bottle manufacturers may need to solve soon. Were Health Canada's tests incorrect? Is there a breach in the BPA-free manufacturing process? Myers notes that manufacturers should do additional testing and find the problem, if there truly is one, since these bottles probably shouldn't be labeled BPA-free if they contain any amount of the chemical.
Who is suppose to be monitoring this? I feel deceived!