Class Action

AGs Seek Halt to Toxic Chemicals In Baby Bottles

By classlawblog

The Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, announced in a press release that he, along with the Attorneys General of New Jersey and Delaware, sent a letter to eleven companies asking them to stop using bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles and baby formula containers.  According to the release, BPA is considered to be a toxic chemical, as studies have linked it reproductive, neurological and immune systems in infants as well as to “prostate and breast cancer, early onset of puberty, obesity and diabetes.”  The eleven companies who were sent the letter were: “baby bottle manufacturers Avent, Disney First Years, Gerber, Dr. Brown, Playtex and Evenflo; and formula makers Abbott, Mead Johnson, PBM Products, Nature’s One and Wyeth.”

Full post as published by ClassLawBlog.com on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).