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Twitter Tuesday Giveaway: Beaba Silicone Freezer Tray

Alicia — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:38:28 +0000

For Twitter Tuesday, we’re giving away the awesome silicone Freezer Storage Trays! Simplify homemade baby food with Beaba’s safe, durable storage trays. From freezer to microwave, their BPA-free silicone trays are designed with 2 oz cups for freezing seven favorite foods.

Our Favorite Features

Airtight plastic lid preserves fresh flavors, textures and nutrients
Individual frozen portions slip out, ready for reheating in the Beaba Babycook or microwave (we recommend removing plastic lid before microwaving)
Made tough to last through all of your babies, with no worries of worn out plastic cracking under everyday use
Size: 8 1/4″ in diameter
Dishwasher safe

And Now for the Giveaway

Congrats to our winners! @joannagiveaway won via Twitter and Elizabeth B. won via 2nd Chance Drawing

It’s time for more Twitter Tuesday fun! Today we’re giving away a Beaba Multiportion Freezer Tray to one lucky winner via a live giveaway on Twitter at 3pm EST and another via 2nd Chance Drawing here on our blog.

How to enter via Twitter (#TuesGiveaway)

Follow us on Twitter @thesoftlanding
We’ll send out a contest announcement on Twitter at 3pm EST, and you’ll be entered automatically when you copy/paste that announcement and re-tweet it. Our tweet will look something like this: “RT to WIN: @thesoftlanding is giving away XYZ to the 50th person to tweet this!” (the tweet will be sent out right at 3pm EST and will not look exactly like this one – so be watching on Twitter)
The lucky tweet(s) will win! We’ll notify everyone by tweeting the winner(s) Twitter ID when the contest ends. Please check our profile page at http://www.twitter.com/thesoftlanding.com for updates
The winner(s) will contact us at info@thesoftlanding.com with their full name and shipping address to claim their prize
If you’ve won in the last 30 days, you will not be eligible to win today

*NOTE* Please be considerate of others by keeping your Twitter entries at a reasonable level (2-3 tweets). That way everyone will have a chance to enter

How to Enter the Blog Contest

Don’t worry if you can’t make it to our Twitter Tuesday Giveaway today, because you can enter here on our blog too for a chance to win another Beaba Multiportion Freezer Tray! Simply leave a comment right here on this blog post by midnight on October 15, 2009. One entry per person. Open to all blog readers worldwide!

U.S. Lawmakers to Introduce Legislation for Federal Ban of BPA in Children’s Food Containers

Alicia — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:54:55 +0000

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported yesterday that leaders from the House of Representatives and the Senate announced legislation to establish a federal ban on bisphenol-a in all food and beverage containers intended for use with children under 3 years old.

The move came on the heels of two other major announcements:

The six largest baby bottle makers agreed to stop selling polycarbonate bottles in the U.S.
Sunoko, a chemical manufacturer, became the first chemical manufacturer to voluntarily require their manufacturing clients to guarantee that BPA will not be used in food or water containers in products intended for children.

The bills call for an immediate end to the production of food and drink containers made with BPA – including canned baby formula, which is arguably the largest single source of BPA exposure for infants. The legislation falls nicely in line with the Kid-Safe Chemical, Act which supports a much needed overhaul of the nation’s current toxic chemical regulatory law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

As of now, TSCA does not require chemicals to be proven safe before being placed on the market. Under federal law, the EPA does not have the authority to demand the information it needs to evaluate a chemical’s risk, and neither manufacturers nor the EPA are required to prove a chemical’s safety as a condition of use. The Kid-Safe Chemical Act aims to change all this through reforming the TSCA to require that new chemicals be safety tested before they are sold and that chemical manufacturers test and prove that the 62,000 chemicals already on the market that have never been tested are indeed safe in order for them to remain in commerce.

We signed the Kid-Safe Chemical Act Declaration and we encourage you to hop over to www.kidsafechemicals.org and make your voice heard today!

You can also help spread the word by placing the Kid-Safe Chemical Act badge on your blog with the following code:

Which Prepared Baby Food Containers are BPA Free?

Alicia — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:22:09 +0000

UPDATED 2/3/09

Concern about the harmful affects of bisphenol-a (BPA) in polycarbonate plastic baby feeding gear is spreading quickly. Unfortunately, BPA is also commonly found in epoxy resins used for protective linings in canned food, ready-to-feed infant formula and metal lids of baby food jars. A recent study published in Environmental Health Perspectives found such widespread exposure to BPA may result in levels of up to 11 times higher in infants than in adults. Research has suggested that young children are more susceptible to the harmful affects of environmental toxins and scientists are calling for more sensitive testing methods to determine what a safe level would be, specifically for children. And to top it all off, a recent UK study raised the concern that BPA may remain in the body longer than previously suspected.

Lowering our children’s exposure to environmental toxins is a necessity, but avoiding BPA can be difficult because it lurks in so many unsuspecting products. We have to wonder where it will show up next when the chemical industry is pumping out more than 7 billion pounds of the stuff per year.

We’ve started the search for BPA-free baby food containers to help you out. If you need information on baby formula, please review the Environmental Working Group’s helpful list here.

Commercially Prepared Baby Food in BPA-free Containers

Sprout Baby (brand new – just announced by Healthy Child 2/3/09)
Yummy Spoonfuls
Happy Baby
Plum Organics
Homemade Baby
Tasty Baby
Fifi Bear’s
Maddy’s Organic Meals
Parent’s Choice (they don’t make baby food in glass jars)
Gerber (all baby food products except glass baby food jars are BPA-free)
Beechnut (plastic containers used for juices, Stage 2 fruits, Good Morning, Good Evening and DHA plus+ juices are BPA-free; glass baby food jars do contain BPA)

Baby Food Containers using BPA

Earth’s Best (they told us that BPA is used in minute amounts in the glass jar lids, but that independent testing showed no BPA contamination in the baby food. Use your own discretion here)
Beechnut (they told us that their glass baby food jars contain trace amounts of BPA)
Gerber (glass baby food jars only)
Nature’s Goodness

We’ve tried to to contact Heinz repeatedly but we haven’t received an answer yet.

Have we missed any BPA-free brands that you know of? If so, leave a comment and let us know

We do recommend making your own baby food if possible and storing it in reusable containers such as Baby Cubes, Fresh Baby Trays or glass storage dishes.