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Building a Better Baby Bottle

Edel Rodríguez   This summer, a small Texas-based company began marketing a plastic baby bottle it claims is the first on the market to be “guaranteed” safe from health risks associated with bottles made from commonly used bisphenol-A (BPA). The rollout is modest; the company is selling the bottle on a website and using crowdsourcing to fund broader distribution of a $19.95 baby bottle aimed at…

  In July 2013, a jury in federal court in Austin ruled that PlastiPure and CertiChem—two small, private labs founded by a University of Texas professor—had made false and misleading statements about plastic bottles, and about Tritan, a trademarked resin used to make the bottles.

Tennessee-based Eastman Chemical had spent tens of millions of dollars creating Tritan, which it advertises as free…