Laptop lunchbox & BPA?

[bubbaray]

OK, so I called my local Whole Foods today to track down some LTLB (you guys convinced me to try them in my previous thread). They said that they don't sell them anymore b/c the LTLB folks wouldn't guarantee that they don't have BPA in them (I'm in Canada, its a big deal here).

The LTLB website says they are lead free, but d/n say BPA free.

Thoughts?

[eb1]

This site says they are BPA-free: http://zrecs.blogspot.com/2008/03/z-report-bpa-obentec-laptop-lunches.html

And the laptop lunch site says "At Obentec, Inc. we are extremely concerned about toxins in our food and in the environment. Thus we take great care to ensure that we use the safest materials available. For this reason we manufacture our lunch containers here in California using plastics (polypropylene and polyethylene) that are FDA-approved for food use. We do not use any binding agents or plasticizers in the process. We do not use any materials that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disrupters." http://www.laptoplunches.com/FAQs.html

The laptop lunch site also has a link about plastics: http://www.laptoplunches.com/plastics.html

HTH.

[bubbaray]

I read the second link from their site. I'm so puzzled.

Does Whole Foods sell them still in the US? Is this just a Whole Foods Canadian stores policy???

I read that quote from the LTLB site to the WF manager and she said "yeah, but they won't guarantee it". it was obvious I wasn't the first person to ask why they weren't selling them anymore.

Sigh. I think too much!

[amandabea]

I read the second link from their site. I'm so puzzled.

Does Whole Foods sell them still in the US? Is this just a Whole Foods Canadian stores policy???

I read that quote from the LTLB site to the WF manager and she said "yeah, but they won't guarantee it". it was obvious I wasn't the first person to ask why they weren't selling them anymore.

Sigh. I think too much!

I was at WF on Sunday and saw them. I'm in CA.

[bubbaray]

Okee dokee. Thanks. I think this has to do with the BPA freak-out last winter. MEC (very similar to REI in the US) pulled all their BPA water bottles and that was the start. I mean, its a good thing, but it sounds like there has been a freak-out on the retailer level.