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Full list of BPA-containing bottles that should be disappearing soon

Playtex, Gerber, Evenflo, Avent, Dr. Brown's, and The First Years all agreed yesterday to comply with widespread requests from lawmakers and bans by baby stores and stop selling BPA-containing baby bottles in the U.S. Many of these bottles will still be available in the U.S. for months, however, so no one should assume that all bottles are now safe! These products may linger in the supply chain for half a year or more before they are actually "discontinued" in the real world of brick-and-mortar store shelves and Amazon listings.

By our reckoning, the companies should be discontinuing the following products:

Avent: Original Airflex, Tempo

Dr. Brown's: Standard PC bottle

Evenflo: Classic Bottle (non-BPA-free version), Elan

The First Years: Breastflow (non-BPA-free version), Soothie

Gerber: ComfortHold, Preemie

Playtex: Drop-Ins Premium Nurser, Insulator, Kinder-Grip (non-BPA-free version), Ventaire lines (non-BPA-free version)

By the same logic, we're looking for some of these companies to make the following products go "poof!" or transition to BPA-free status in the next six months.

Evenflo: SipRite trainer cups

Dr. Brown's: Training Cup

Avent: Freeflow and Nighttime pacifiers

Do you and your baby have a favorite BPA-free bottle? Tell us what it is! Need one? Check the ZRecs Guide's lists of top pick products in bottles and sippy cups for best bets. - Jeremiah

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Dabble a little Dapple on your dishes

I’ve always known about baby-friendly laundry detergent and fabric softener, but I had no idea you could buy baby-friendly dish soap! Dapple Dish Liquid is an all-natural dish soap that is phthalate-free, paraben-free, and dye-free. It features award-winning "green" technology that targets milk residue (all too common on bottles and other feeding gear) and baking soda to fight odor. The ingredients list is rather impressive only because I can actually understand each ingredient, from purified water and baking soda to tree oils and natural amino acids.

Dapple rinses quickly and uses essential oil for a light lavender fragrance. It is also biodegradable, environmentally safe, free of detectable levels of dioxane (a known eye and respiratory tract irritant) and has not been tested on animals. Kind of makes me wonder just what's in the current bottle of dish soap sitting on my sink…

You can purchase a 16-oz. bottle of Dabble for about $6 from Amazon.com or a case of six 17-oz. bottles for about $42 from Dapple's website. - Emily H.

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Read the advisory here, and find out what it means for consumers and for Carter's on Z Recommends. - Jeremiah