Comments on: Cancer Scare Causes Nalgene to Pull Plastic Bottles

By: Am I The Last To Know? » My Urban Chick

Am I The Last To Know? » My Urban Chick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:01:47 +0000

[...] Clearly, this company is filling the hole left by Nalgene, which was hard hit after a massive recall of their plastic bottles. [...]

By: John Smith

John Smith — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:15:32 +0000

Looks like Sigg recently had a recall on their water bottles as well because of the water-based epoxy resin liner:
http://www.mysigg.com/bulletin/exchange_program.html

By: AC or The Big A

AC or The Big A — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:51:23 +0000

Do what I do, take a drink out of a glass before you leave the house! When did everyone decide that they needed a drink of water in their hands every second of the day. Here’s and idea – use a drinking fountain! If you have to use walk around with a water in your hand, make it stainless steel – plastic and aluminum cause cancer – (eventually any plastic will give you cancer – it is a chemical) and aluminum will give you alzheimers. Glass / stainless steel will not. Just a thought!

By: Janice

Janice — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:33:11 +0000

I hear that plastic bottles with #7 have BPA, on the other hand, I also hear that plastic bottles with #7 do not have BPA. So which should I believe?

By: Allie Comeau

Allie Comeau — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:03:01 +0000

Amber, there are BPA-free plastic bottles – I wonder if those would work?

Brad, a lot of the newer Nalgene bottles are made without BPA. The older ones are, so my guess is you might want to replace yours, especially if they have any cracks. I threw all mine out and replaced them with Sigg bottles.

Thanks! Hope this helps.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:16:26 +0000

I am confused…is it all Nalgene water bottles in question? Should I throw away the 15 of them that I have? Yikes!

By: Amber G.

Amber G. — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:13:21 +0000

This may be a silly question. I recently bought a North Face bag and received a complimentary water bottle with it. I’m not sure if it was stainless steel or aluminum, but it froze in my truck while I was on a snowboarding trip and the material split open making the bottle unusable. What brand/material would you be able to recommend that did not have this same effect?

After all of these scares, I would really like to switch my water bottle to something safer, but I want to make sure that I’m spending my minimal college dollars on something practical and worth my money. I really appreciate your advice if you have any.

Thanks!

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:05:45 +0000

If the bottle doesn’t have a #7 how do you know if it contains bpa?

By: Allie Comeau

Allie Comeau — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:21:19 +0000

Thanks for your comment.

I appreciate you taking the time to send your thoughts. I haven’t been able to uncover any information about glass, porcelain, or stainless steel that would verify what you said, however. I’m not entirely sure I understand.

By: Jehoshaphat Sinclair

Jehoshaphat Sinclair — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:14:11 +0000

To better understand the health hazards of food containers one must first understand the manufacturing process. The hazards of Nalgene products were discovered due to a better understanding of their manufacturing processes.

With continued focus on this issue and review of manufacturing of alternatives to Nalgene products, reveals similar concerns.

The lead content of stainless steel products activated by heat and cold extremes reveals that they are as safe as eating the chipped paint from a 1930’s home. Resorting to glass or porcelain products exposes the user to formaldehyde levels of a pickled high school frog.

As a molecular engineer from California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, I fear that my duty to inform consumers nationwide of the fraud that is being perpetrated in replacing one hazardous material with another.