In a shocking interview released today, Fred Vom Saal, professor of biology at the Universty of Missouri, told The Star that he believes the company-sponsored test of the SIGG metal bottles was a sham.
That test measured the presence of the toxic chemical in parts per billion, he said, while the current standard is parts per trillion – one thousand times more sensitive. “This is appalling. All BPA-lined products leach BPA – end of story, no argument, no exceptions,” said Vom Saal, who has studied bisphenol A for more than a decade. Vom Saal’s tests completed several years ago found SIGG bottles did leach bisphenol A in parts per trillion. He never published his results, as at that time the company’s website publicized their liner as an epoxy resin including BPA, he said.
So the moral of SIGG’s story is that growing your company, widely marketed as eco-conscious, on the wave of consumers who turned to metal bottles in an effort to avoid BPA just doesn’t pay off. We need our green companies to offer more transparency instead of hiding behind proprietary lingo. Which reminds me – we still don’t know what the new EcoCare liner is made from do we?
If you’ve decided you can live out the unknowns, you can swap your SIGG bottle for a stainless steel one in our Big Bottle Swap (see details on the website). Also, Simran Sethi reported in a Huffington Post article that many SIGG retailers are accepting old bottles for refunds (although you won’t find this info on SIGG’s website).
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