All products in the pigeon range are completely BPA FREE

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an important industrial chemical that is used primarily as a chemical backbone (monomer) to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins.
When BPA started to be employed in industrial manufacturing of polycarbonate plastic in 1957, it was found to give plastic a unique combination of very useful properties - in particular optical clarity, shatter-resistance and high heat-resistance.
These characteristics have made polycarbonate an important part of everyday life in a wide variety of applications, especially food manufacturing and construction.
Because it has been used to make consumer products for more than 50 years now, and because of its diffusion in many everyday products like baby bottles and food/drinks containers, Bisphenol A has been the subject of extensive scientific study and controversial evaluation over the last decade.
One of the main arguments against BPA is that it is also a synthetic hormone that mimics estrogen, binding to the same receptors in the human body (and the bodies of other mammals) as natural female hormones.
In the 1930s, extensive tests were conducted to determine whether Bisphenol A could be used in hormone replacement therapy for women, but it ultimately proved less effective than other chemicals as a source of synthetic estrogen.
For this property scientists and researchers claim that exposure to Bisphenol A can increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer and liver abnormalities in adults and result in brain and hormone development problems in fetuses and young children.
As its proven that small amounts of BPA can contaminate food when heated up on when plastic deteriorate, their claim is that even though for the most part, human exposure to Bisphenol is low-level in most of the plastic used for consumer products, the exposure to a human body is also continuous and widespread, because BPA is present in so many of the products we all use every day.
However no position has been definitely taken and no final and unified response has been given to the public.
Controversy over alleged toxicity of course exists between public and environmental health advocates on one side and the plastics industry and other university based studies, which minimise any concern and say there is minimal danger with human exposure levels.
Starting in 2008, several governments decided to reassess BPA's safety, with different results again. Pushed by media and public opinion some governments prompted retailers in specific industries (especially baby products manufacturers) to withdraw polycarbonate products from the market.
Australia was one of them.
As soon as BPA raised more serious concerns, PIGEON introduced our current BPA FREE bottle range, made of either PP (milky plastic) or PPSU (honey tinged) bottles.
In the whole old Pigeon range, in fact, only the old baby bottles (the 200mL and 300mL) contained minimal traces of Bisphenol A.
Luckily Pigeon always manufactured its baby bottles using an extremely high grade of Polycarbonate, therefore the old bottle range contained less than 0.01ug/ml of the potentially harmful component, a quarter of the current European BPA standard for safety (0.04ug/ml).
Today we are proud to say that PIGEON Australia hasn't sold anything containing even the smallest trace of Bisphenol A over the last 18 months.
Please note that Pigeon Teethers, Toothbrushes, Dummies, Cups etc NEVER contained BPA – any products which are not transparent and do not need to stand high temperatures are, and always have been, BPA free.