Comments on: Bisphenol-A – It’s even worse than we thought!

By: Weaning The Kids Off Junk | New Greener Family

Weaning The Kids Off Junk | New Greener Family — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:02:30 +0000

[...] Food is one of my main objectives towards living a better life. It’s also one of the scarier things to think about. What are they putting on my food? What did they do to it before It was packaged? What is in the packaging? [...]

By: Making Things Up » an advice column, starring you

Making Things Up » an advice column, starring you — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:53:55 +0000

[...] TWO: Having been reminded repeatedly (most recently via Crunchy Domestic Goddess and Terminal Verbosity) that canned goods are slowly killing us via BPA, I have to ask: do you think I want to buy a crock [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:26:46 +0000

The only way that manufacturers will make product safety a priority is if the government requires it or the consumers demand it. Otherwise, honestly, safety is just too expensive in their minds. And government entities like the FDA are under tremendous pressure from industry to make things easy on corporations, so I doubt the government in this country will ever have adequate safety or environmental standards.

That leaves consumers. And we can influence things, but only if we’re both informed and willing to make a political statement — even if it’s more expensive or less convenient — with where we choose to spend our money. It’s happening bit by bit, but it’s taking an awful lot of time and at a pretty huge cost to the environment and our health.

By: Susan (5 Minutes for Mom)

Susan (5 Minutes for Mom) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:55:04 +0000

These companies just tick me off. Why can’t manufacturers make product safety their top priority?

By: Summer

Summer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:46:02 +0000

You can’t buy anything these days! It’s a bit scary to see how much garbage is in everything we use on a regular basis.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:52:08 +0000

I’ll definitely be researching this today, Nicole. When someone suggested that to me a while back, a friend looked it up and told me lead in this sort of usage was banned years ago. So I’ll look into it and let you know (here) what I find out!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:47:07 +0000

Do you worry about lead in your crock pot glaze? I want a new crock pot. I need more capacity, and when I googled the results said that my kind (green glaze) was the most likely to test positive for lead. You kinda can’t win, can you!?