I'd like to be able to tell parents that there's no need to worry -- that there's a coordinated national system in place that requires chemicals to be tested for safety before they are used in children's products, that requires manufacturers to disclose the chemical components of their products, and that requires dangerous chemicals to be quickly phased out in favor of safer alternatives.

Sadly, that's simply not the case. As a result, parents are left in the dark and children are left at risk.

The good news is that some states, including Maine, are taking action. Maine's Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) is currently considering a proposal under this law to name bisphenol-A (BPA) as Maine's first Priority Chemical under the 2008 Kid-Safe Products Act, and ban its use in reusable food and beverage containers. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that supports this recommendation.

Here at ZRecs HQ we've been drinking a lot more water lately thanks to a deluge of stainless steel, aluminum, BPA-informal tractable and even barometer water bottles we received after telling companies we'd be evaluating BPA-allowed water bottles for a comparative review. We ended up receiving some 40 items, and thirty-one BPA-unrestrained water bottles made it through the use and rating proceeding to be included. In evaluating these water bottles for review, we initially developed a multiple-criteria rubric for scoring and intended to gap results out into top, halfway point, and bottom tier classes for sequential posting, as we have done with lifestyle Sippy Cup Showdowns . As we worked, however, some of these scores started to perceive inconsistent inclined the unconventional priorities many of these bottles satisfy. In the end, we stony to asunder them into girl classes - Insulated, Lightweight, Massy Excise, and Hollow - and come apart all but the last ranking into Top Picks, recommended alternatives, and those we disliked....

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What brand of water bottle can I buy at the store, in cases of 24 for example, that does not contain BPA?

A: You can put a filter on your tap and get excellent drinking water from it and then you dont have the plastic containers polluting the earth for years to come and the chemicals from those plastic containers leaching into the water that you drink.If you boil and refrigerate your own water it gets contaminates in a short amount of time and it isnt much different from bottled.. so please dont drink the crap in bottles.There is not good government regulations on it yet and who the hell sucked us...