Parents of young babies know that giving them a bath is challenging, frustrating and rarely fun.
An amazingly innovative Canadian product called Spa Baby makes it pleasant a pleasant experience all around.
The Spa Baby is a European-style baby bath tub that lets you bathe your baby while it’s sitting up.
It goes back to the idea of bathing them in the kitchen sink, says Brandy Cameron, founder of Spa Baby Tubs, Inc.
After the birth of her baby six years ago, Cameron discovered how difficult it was to give newborns a bath and how much they disliked the process! Searching for a better alternative, she discovered that outside of North America, it was standard to bathe [...]
Spa Baby makes bathing baby a pleasure
EPA to designate BPA as “chemical of concern”
With an apparent backtrack, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will intensify its investigation into how BPA affects our nation’s wildlife and water supply and will now designate the compound as a “chemical of concern.”
This is a turnaround since their announcement last December of their list of “chemicals of concern” which didn’t include BPA, even after the EPA’s top administrator Lisa Jackson had said that her agency would take a more aggressive approach to regulating chemicals of concern, specifically mentioning BPA as one of these.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the chemical’s effects in food contact items, reversed its position on BPA, declaring it had some concern [...]
Link Sunday
Here’s a roundup of our favorite stories from the past week:
1) CA cities required to use a carbon calculator for state funds? Plus check your own footprint.
2) The latest on the hormone disrupter found in everything from canned food to ATM receipts– BPA– and the hope (legislation) on the horizon…
3) Po River oil spill– bad news for parmesan?
4) The blobfish.
5) Using tree stumps for cake stands– so smart, but we didn’t think of it.
6) Linguists on how to discuss climate change.
7) Slowing cargo ships would save a lot, economically and for the environment.
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Can we be BPA free?
Anyone strolling around a “gear” store (read: expensive clothing and equipment for outdoor activites… I admit I am an addict) will see an assortment of water bottles available for their nature excursions. “BPA Free!” read the plastic options. And in response to the growing number of consumers wishing avoid plastic altogether, popular metal brands like KleenKanteen are now steady shelf presences.
While this anecdote illustrates increasing awareness that BPA is “bad”, few really know the extent to which bisphenol-A has penetrated our daily lives—and for many of us, since childhood.
At some point, you were likely given plastic formula bottles (BPA lined) filled with baby formula (contains BPA). Once you graduated from [...]
Science Confirms Link between BPA and Heart Disease
The FDA’s new report on the safety of endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A is months overdue and there is still no sign of when or if the agency will release the report. Perhaps they are waiting for that piece of “smoking gun” evidence that BPA represents a clear and present danger to human health? Well, thanks to researchers from Peninsula College of Medicine in Britain, we just may have it.
In 2008, the group looked at data from the 2003-2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which included urinary BPA levels for the first time. The results:
[A] quarter of the population with the highest levels of BPA were more than twice [...]
PVC FREE SCHOOLS
Top Ten Reasons
Your School
Should Go PVC-Free
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC or vinyl) plastic poses serious environmental
and health threats at all stages of its lifecycle: from manufacturing to
use to disposal. Here are the top ten reasons schools should go
PVC-free and build or renovate with PVC-free building materials.
1. Children More At Risk from Toxic Chemicals
Children are not “little adults” – their developing brains and bodies, their metabolism and behaviors make them uniquely vulnerable to harm from toxic chemicals such as those released by the PVC lifecycle:
• Exposure begins in the womb through the mother’s exposures to toxic chemicals. Infants
ingest chemicals through breast milk, formula and contact with their environment.
• Rapid brain development in the [...]
Telll the SENATE: Ban BPA
Recent research on Bisphenol-A (BPA) has linked this chemical to breast and prostate cancer, reproductive system abnormalities and a host of developmental problems in early childhood. Yet this toxic chemical can be found in a growing number of containers and products — including baby bottles and teething rings!
It’s time that we stop exposing our children and ourselves to this toxic chemical! Tell Senator Cardin and Senator Mikulski to support the BPA-Free Kids Act today!
On Sunday, Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand from New York introduced a new bill that would prohibit the manufacture and sale of food and beverage containers for infants and toddlers that are made of BPA.
Barbara G, [...]
RED LIGHT: CHEMICALS OF HIGH CONCERN
Chemicals of High Concern are a select group of chemicals that are the highest priority for companies and government to eliminate from usage. To hasten this transition CPA and Healthy Building Network have developed this Red List of chemicals of high concern. Although the Red List is based on authoritative government lists, it is important to note that any high priority list is based on the evaluation of only a limited set of the approximately 80,000 chemicals in commerce. Many chemicals have simply not been tested
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Chemicals of High Concern are a select group of chemicals that are the highest priority to eliminate from usage. In the Green Screen for Safer [...]
Keeping BPA Out of Food and Beverages
In addition to the potential health risks, there are many more reasons to reduce your use of plastic food containers, dishes and cutlery. Plastics consume resources that are largely nonrenewable (crude oil and natural gas), their use contributes to needless waste, and their production and degradation create pollution. Here are a few BPA safety tips for food and drink.
Can the cans. “Canned foods are likely to be the highest contributor to BPA in our diets, not plastics,” says Vandenberg. Also, she says parents should buy powdered rather than liquid infant formula, because the former has less exposure to the BPA lining the can.
If you use plastic wrap, try to find [...]