Many of us have recently heard the shocking news that some SIGG bottles contains Bisphenol-A (BPA) in their liners. The BPA is in the bottles that was manufactured before August 2008. You can read the CEO of SIGG’s apology on the Huffington Post blog of their decision not to disclose when they first found out.
Though I’ve never owned a SIGG bottle, I did have plans to purchase a couple for myself and gifts for others. Learning about this breach of trust really angered me in ways no other “conventional” company who’ve told similar lies have ever done. We have using products with plastic and eating canned foods for years and we are just now finding out the the hazards of some of theses items. After manufactures of such products have been revealed and products with these chemicals banned in certain countries, we put our trust in companies that are supposed to be looking out for us. Yes, they are out to make a profit and that is their right and I respect that, but does that mean they have a right to be dishonest when it gets difficult?
Should we now just take everything what any company says about the safety of their products with a gain of salt? How do we know (or find out) if a company is lying to us about their products?
I really wouldn’t 100% trust any company or any mass marketed product. There are too many people involved, the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, or maybe they do but the PR folks at the company keep it quiet.
.-= Michelle @ Find Your Balance´s last blog ..I can’t swim. I’m not wet enough. =-.
Wow Carla – I can’t believe this on one hand and on another I so saw this coming.
When I started doing research a couple of years ago on alternatives to plastic bottles and BPA, I naturally came across Klean Kanteen and Sigg as the ultimate alternatives. (Now there are tons of no name stainless steel bottles) But anyway.
When I researched SIGG, first I was very disappointed to find out that they had bottles made of aluminum and then to know that they had a liner in those bottles (naturally to try to protect from the aluminum) that they would not disclose the ingredients of. It was guarded by “trade secrets”.
Well this is where my intuition kicked in – something told me to stay away from those bottles, as I just had a bad feeling about that liner, and here we go…. wouldn’t you know it.
I am not looking to be “right” here but definitely learned 2 lessons:
one – trust your intuition and
two – don’t trust any company 100%
Sure there are less risky products and companies out there and I really do try to give some the benefit of the doubt, but it is sad that for so many today, money is really the only driving force, not the health and well being of the citizens.
.-= Evita´s last blog ..Marcomé: An Artist and Music For the Mind, Body & Soul =-.
@Michelle – It seems like the bigger the company is, more likely things will “slip through the cracks”.
@Evita – Thank you for your thoughtful response! Whenever I see “secret” ingredients I tend to run the other direction if I don’t get a response directly from my manufacture.