Do Poland Spring water bottles contain bpa?
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It depends which type of bottle you’re talking about.
The "on-the-go" size bottles (half liters, half pints, sports top bottles, 1-gallons, etc) are made of PET plastic, a.k.a. #1. These bottles contain no BPA.
The 3 and 5-gallon bottles, the ones that go onto a water cooler, are made out of the infamous #7 plastic which does infact contain BPA. Don’t be alarmed yet, however. The problem with BPA is that when a bottle made of Bisphenol-A is constantly reused and becomes worn, it begins to "leach" the BPA into the water. The main concern with the BPA is baby bottles, because they are constantly washed and reused. Poland Spring does test the bottles to make sure there’s a safe level of BPA, and they test water that has been sitting inside of the bottles as well.
Considered a packaged food, the FDA holds Poland Spring (a division of Nestle Waters North America) to strict guidelines regarding the bottles. The FDA allows the 3 and 5-gallon bottles to be reused 100 times; the uses are tracked using a barcode on the bottle. Poland Spring, however, only reuses it’s bottles 25 times to maintain the integrity of the bottle. This was their policy far before the Bisphenol-A scare.
It is also important to note that the only official study currently released regarding Bisphenol-A was done on lab mice, by giving them 1000x the amount of BPA a human would ever be in contact with. For all intensive purposes, if you give a mouse 1000x the amount of calcium, flouride, iron, really anything humans are in contact with, it would have a huge effect on the mouse.
I’m not one for taking chances, but I’m fairly confident the largest food and beverage company in the world would not set itself up for millions of lawsuits.