Oprah Winfrey's favorite sports bottles are dangerous to health: because of them you can get lead poisoning

Fashion Bindle metal water bottles contain 1000 times the safe amount of lead, reports Dailymail.

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The Bindle bottle keeps the temperature of the liquid and also contains a compartment for snacks, keys or credit cards. According to Consumer Reports, there is a small dot at the bottom of the bottle that contains 10% lead.

Product safety tests by a consumer advocacy group claim that the bottles contained approximately 1100 times more lead than is legally allowed in many consumer products. They also reported that the bottles contained bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical linked to fertility problems and certain types of cancer.

Due to the safety risks associated with using bottles, Consumer Reports urged people to stop drinking from them immediately. The organization also warned the federal consumer product safety commission to conduct a more thorough investigation.

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The appalling Bindle bottle report comes just a couple of months after Green Sprouts, another bottle maker, recalled thousands of water bottles and drinkers due to potential lead exposure in children.

Even low levels of lead exposure can cause a number of health problems, including reduced concentration and many learning disabilities, cardiovascular and respiratory problems, decreased IQ, stunted growth in children, and at higher concentrations, seizures, permanent nerve and brain damage. brain and death.

They also reported that the color coating contained BPA.

Ashita Kapoor, deputy director of product safety at CR, who oversaw the trials, said: "Because this powder coating is in direct contact with our skin when we hold the bottle, BPA exposure can harm the female reproductive system."

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Testing by Consumer Reports has shown that the lead content of the "seal point", which is used to seal the vacuum that keeps the contents cold or hot, ranges from 90 ppm to 800 ppm.

“Lead dot is a common component of these bottles, but it is usually coated with other food-grade materials. This location is open on Bindle,” the report said.

Bindle, for its part, acknowledged the issue last week, saying the company is "taking this very seriously and working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible."

“Recent testing has shown that this soldering point contains lead. Although we believe that the small area of ​​lead poses a negligible risk to the health and safety of users,” the company said.

The company is also working on redesigning bottles to cover the lead point on existing bottles and redesigning future bottles.

The Green Sprout recall last year was prompted by a similar issue. The bottom of the bottles could break off, exposing a solder point containing lead. The recall covered over 10 units.

Consumer Reports decided to investigate claims that the bottles contained lead after it received a tip from Lead Safe Mama blogger Tamara Rubin, who conducted her own testing bottles with a simple lead swab available from many major retailers such as Amazon and Home Depot.

“When you watch the video at the top of the page showing me using a swab to test LeadCheck® Reactive Agent on a bottle, you may notice that the swab started to turn pink before I even touched the sealing point! This is because there are microparticles of lead inside the compartment,” Rubin said in her video.

Bindle, like many startups these days, got its start on Kickstarter, where it received a cash injection of around $2017 in 40. But the company received a significant boost the following year when it was listed as one of Oprah's favorite things.

The brand took off thanks to its skillful social media presence and marketing strategies that consisted of Instagram posts featuring attractive young adults taking multi-tasking bottles with them for hiking, sightseeing and trips to the beach.

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The brand has also positioned itself as a remedy for environmental damage, stating on its website, "Our goal is to reduce the consumption of single-use plastic in everyday life."

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