[Diana in Wisconsin]

What time is Meryl Streep scheduled to weep on Capitol Hill over this situation? ;)

(And when can I get the media to pick up on yet another manufactured panic that will make ME gobs of money? Dang!)

[goodnesswins]

Well...it’s more likely the warming in the microwave IN THE BOTTLE may be the problem....JMHO

[org.whodat]

"Nationwide, we've had an increase in sales of over 500 percent over a six-month period of time," he said, declining to disclose sales figures or the number of bottles sold.

Lets see if you sold no glass bottle last month and one mother bought five this months how much would that be. Be back in an hour are so gone to hunt calculator. LOL

[txzman]

EVERYBODY PANIC!

[rawhide]

A Coca-Cola always taste better out of a glass bottle verses the plastic bottle. (in my consumer-report opinion)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Any bets on the time of the first class action lawsuit??

[Calpernia]

>>>”Glass bottles are really hard to keep in stock,”

Breasts aren’t :)

[CWW]

We heat the milk in a glass in the microwave, then pour it into the bottle. Problem solved.

[CWW]

We heat the milk in a glass in the microwave, then pour it into the bottle. Problem solved.

[tarawa]

Don’t they use disposable plastic liners in the bottles anyhow? So the milk never touches the actual bottle?

[spanalot]

i would think most bottles are polyethylene which is hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen - the same atoms that make up most of the human body and a molecule that is the same as body fat.

[knuthom]

Breastfeed the baby. Then you don’t have to worry about this stuff. I nursed four without bottles (no, not all at the same time). It was cheaper and easier.

[WackySam]

Why not drink right from the tap?

[theBuckwheat]

Sorry to break the news, but glass is not pristine either. There are a number of chemicals that can leach into glass and can later contaminate food that comes in contact with it. One excellent example is that lead crystal should never be used to store alcoholic beverages because lead will leach out of the glass and into the alcohol.

[Joya]

What about the baby bottle nipples? They must still be made of plastic. And what about pacifiers?

[CholeraJoe]

The most appropriate vessel for administration of infant nutrition is flesh.

[Larry Lucido]

I was raised on glass bottles. And I rarely complained.

[7thson]

It probably is a manufactured problem but everything does taste better coming from a glass. That is why when I use to drink beer, I prefered a bottle over a can. Milk from a glass bottle does taste better than from a plastic jug.

[bert]

American females are trained from birth to fear life.

[shield]

There have been studies out for a while on this plastic and many baby bottle manufactures starting quietly pulling the bottles off the shelves.

[mad_as_he$$]

This is not a manufactured crisis. Bisphenol A is bad juju. Most locales limit the amount of any phenol compound to less that 0.005 mg/l in discharge water to the sewer system. ANYTHING with those small of limits is bad. Baby bottles have about 100 - 1,000 time that amount.

There also is a vary big concern about compounds in plastic that become estrogen like when exposed to heat. ,p> http://www.ecocycle.org/TimesFall2002/studentstudies.cfm

I have worked with plastics for over 10 years. My advice:

DO NOT COOK IN IT!!! Oven or Micro.

Do NOT expose food contained in it to heat.

Why take the chance?