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Choosing Safer Products: Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups, and Pacifiers

Choosing Safer Products: Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups, and Pacifiers, a list of products to choose and avoid.

Bottles and Sippy Cups

PRODUCT
TYPE:
choose
avoid
Baby bottles   Glass bottles, opaque/cloudy plastic battles, or clear plastic bottles labeled BPA-free. Examples include:
  • Evenflo's glass,  pastel, or opaque bottles
  • Gerber bottles
  • Medela bottles
  • BornFree bottles
  • Green to Grow bottles
(Plastic liners have not been shown to leach harmful chemicals.)

Read more about baby bottles in our Growing Up Green newsletter!
Clear plastic bottles, unless they are labeled BPA-free.


Sippy cups   Sippy cups made of stainless steel or opaque/cloudy plastic, such as:
  • Avent Magic Cup
  • First Years Take & Toss
  • BornFree Trainer and Drinking Cups
  • Playtex Sipster
Sippy cups made of transparent, rigid plastic, (available in various colors).  These are typically made of polycarbonate, a type of plastic that leaches bisphenol-A (BPA).
PRODUCT
TYPE:
 choose  avoid
Nipples     Silicone (clear) nipples. Rubber/latex (yellow) nipples, which may leach nitrosamines, chemicals linked with cancer.
Pacifiers Pacifiers with silicone (clear) nipples. Examples include:
  • Playtex Ortho-Pro Pacifier
  • Avent Translucent Clear Silicone Pacifier
  • Medici Baby Orthodontic Cherry Pacifier
  • Mam/Sassy Orthodontic Pacifier

Any pacifier with a yellow nipple, which is made of rubber/latex.

 

Healthy Tip!

  • Take care to avoid transparent, rigid plastic containers for storing breast milk.  Glass, opaque/cloudy plastic, and storage bags are safest.

 

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