What really irked me when this came out from EWG last Summer (and I emailed them but never heard back) was that since they were reporting on hi levels of Bisphenol A (BPA)  in ready-to-eat and concentrated formula, their recommendation at the time was to stick to using powdered formula (because the manufacturing and canning process was different/better ??!!).  I don't see that recommendation any longer on the EWG site, but it was most certainly in the email update last Summer.  This got me going for a variety of reasons, but I limited myself to pointing out the issue of powdered formula not being a sterile product (enterobacter sakazaki etc.) and also mentioned there's this other substance that infants can safely consume, it is called mother's milk.

>> Bisphenol A in AIM

Interesting that no brouhaha was made over this when the info came out about the plastics.
It isn't just the bottles, but the contents too.

Laboratory tests of canned infant formula conducted by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) and a certified commercial laboratory reveal
that a plastics chemical called bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from metal
can linings into formula at levels which, according to new EWG
analyses, would expose some bottle-fed infants to BPA in excess of
doses that caused serious adverse effects in animal tests. There are no
government safety standards limiting the amount of BPA in infant
formula.

www.ewg.org/reports/bpaformula

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