Do you remember the scare years ago with BPA in plastic water bottles harming our health? Well, this newly made BPA-free bottles may be just as dangerous.

Manufacturing BPA was banned from many products over the years, particularly those used by children. Plastics manufacturers then created BPA-free alternatives. Millions of people now have bottles and containers containing BPA replacements such as Tritan, created by Eastman Chemical.

Now, recent research is suggesting that Tritan and many other plastics are no safer than those with BPA.

We found a source report from Mariah Blake, who recently published an investigative report in Mother Jones about BPA and other plastics, says dangerous chemicals in plastic products are a much bigger problem than most people realize.

“There are more than 80,000 chemicals that are used in commerce in the United States,” Blake says. “And only a very tiny fraction of these have ever been tested for safety.”

Under the US regulatory system, Blake says, chemicals are generally presumed safe until proven otherwise.

The health hazards of BPA, for example, are now well documented. And that's what led it to be pulled from the market. An "endocrine disruptor," BPA mimics the activity of hormones, such as estrogen, in the body, which can lead to reproductive disorders, breast and prostate cancer, diabetes, heart disease and other conditions.

Meanwhile, the health hazards of the replacement chemicals are almost completely unkown.

Eastman stands behind its products. To ensure the safety of Tritan™, a BPA-free plastic, we used testing methods regarded as “gold standards” by the scientific community. In fact, we have gone above and beyond government and industry testing requirements. Independent third-party labs tested Tritan and have proven that it is free of estrogenic activity.

Blake isn't buying it. She also claims that Eastman's response to Bittner's study has not been solely about the facts.

“Firstly,” she says, “they have attempted to discredit the scientists who are doing this research. Secondly, they have attempted to suppress the evidence. And thirdly, they have generated their own biased research, which shows that these products actually are safe.”

Blake claims the company launched a “character assassination campaign against Bittner.”

“They told their corporate customers that Bittner was shady,” Blake says. “They claimed that his tests had been rejected by the EPA when, in fact, they hadn’t. They called his business practices into question, and they also made the case that his testing methods were not reliable.”

Eastman countered Bittner's findings with tests of its own. But according to internal company emails revealed in a court case in Austin, Texas, Eastman's initial tests found that Tritan was, in fact, estrogenic. Eastman then ran a second test using computer modeling that predicts, based on the chemical structure, whether a chemical is estrogenic.

“That test,” Blake says, “found that one of the ingredients in Tritan is more estrogenic than BPA.”

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