Toys R Us to pull baby bottles with BPA from shelves

Following in the footsteps of Wal-Mart, Toys R' Us is phasing out baby bottles and meal-related items that contain Bisphenol-A (BPA). The company said via email that they're taking action "in light of growing consumer concerns on this topic," referring to last week's news that the National Toxicology Program asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to re-consider its position that BPA is safe.

Toys R' Us won't release a list of the bottles that they will stop selling but did say that the bottles and meal-related products will be off their shelves by 2008.

Wal-Mart has already pulled BPA-products from their stores in Canada after the country became the first to ban the use of BPA in baby bottles. (Canada gets a big WOOT! for this monumental step!). The company hopes to have its stores free of BPA-baby bottles by 2009.

Now we all just have to hope that the U.S. FDA and other countries will follow suit and ban BPA in children's toys and bottles too.


And if you want to read more about BPA in toxic bottles, including how to decide what plastics to avoid, check out this post.

Updated: I just posted a round up of baby bottles that are BPA free.