Glass Week — Glass is pure, inert and BPA free

Try­ing to decide whether to buy plas­tic or glass bot­tles for your baby?

Find out more about the ben­e­fits of glass this week dur­ing Choose Glass Week.  The 21st to 27th of Sep­tem­ber, is ded­i­cated to glass and aims to raise aware­ness of the ben­e­fits of glass across Europe.  Mind­ful Mum is an advo­cate of glass baby bot­tles and has high­lighted the ben­e­fits of glass bot­tles for both your baby and the envi­ron­ment in this blog.  Mind­ful Mum believes glass is the safest option for your fam­ily.  Here are some key facts you may not know about glass.

• In 1960 glass is given a GRAS (Gen­er­ally Recog­nised as Safe) rat­ing from the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion in the USA. To this day, glass is the only pack­ag­ing mate­r­ial to have this designation.
• Glass is made of three nat­ural min­er­als — sand, soda ash and limestone.
• Glass con­tain­ers are 40% lighter than they were 20 years ago.
• Glass is inert and odour­less. Your food never tastes like glass.
• Glass is pure — there is no migra­tion between glass and its contents.
• Glass does not con­tain bisphenol-a (BPA) a chem­i­cal that mim­ics oestrogen.
• Glass is 100% recy­clable. It can be recy­cled again and again which means less energy and nat­ural resources are used.

The Friends of Glass web­site pro­motes glass pack­ag­ing and glass recy­cling and has an array of infor­ma­tion to help keep you informed on glass and the ben­e­fits it has for your health and envi­ron­ment. You can also keep track  of those who truly love glass via blog in a bot­tle.

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