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Sigg bottles and BPA

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IUKE12

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I guess the Sigg bottles have some BPA in the liners, bottles made by the company before August 2008 had "trace amounts" of BPA in the epoxy liners. Sigg officials knew it since June 2006, but didn't announce it until last month. Personally, I really don't care, too old to worry about it, but if you are concerned, Sigg will exchange your copper colored liner bottle for a new one. Go to mysigg dot com
Direct link to exchange program here
 
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I stick to klean kanteens and Guyots. I do like some of siggs flask type bottles though.....
 
The lining in my sigg is chipping off and concerns me a bit. The reason I bought one of the sigg bottles was to get away from the pba in my older nalgene bottles. I guess I'm in for yet another switch. Thanks for the heads up.
 
j williams said:
I stick to klean kanteens and Guyots. I do like some of siggs flask type bottles though.....
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SIGG has a non-lined stainless steel bottle, too. I was always attracted to the SIGG aluminum bottles, but didn't think they were particularily versatile (Can't throw them on a fire to boil water). When the SIGG Steelworks stainless steel bottles came out, I jumped on one as soon as I found them. It's a great bottle.
 
I just found out that BPA isn't considered harmful by German authorities ...
so thanks for bringing that to my closer attention ...
 
Thanks for the heads up :thumbup:. I use Guyot outside, but been using Sigg to and from work...when I get another Guyot I'll use that instead....
 
SIGG pissed me off for doing this. BPA is the primary liner for all metals so when the BPA thing started to get traction and people started asking questions, all SIGG would say is that their bottle was safe. They never said they didn't use BPA, just that their bottles were safe. Which of course is what all BPA-plastic bottle makers were saying. For some reason people believed SIGG but not Nalgene. But I was pretty sure SIGG was using BPA plastic as a liner because that's what everyone used (included many/most canned foods, baby formula cans, etc). So I've been waiting to see what SIGG would say. Now they come out and admit they've been using BPAs after avoiding a direct answer for years.

SIGG has been very disingenuous with this.
 
I did lots of research before buying and got KK SS bottles instead of Sigg. The jury is out about BPA as far as I'm concerened, but if it does half of the things that the anti BPA people claim then I want no part of it. We even replaced the older Nalgene bottles that we carry water for our dogs in.
 
Calemlbak also makes BPA free bottles. There may be no *proof* that BPA is a danger to you physically but it does accumulate in body. Any thing that continues to accumulate like that and is not processed by the body has to be a concern.

BPA is also present in those tupperware type containers you take to work for lunch and heating up food in them makes the BPA leach into the food even more. I take stainless steel containers for lunch but that makes it hard to heat in the microwave.
 
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