Wary of Green Sprouts

When looking for safe options for feeding and teething eco stuff, in both Whole Foods and on Amazon , Green Sprouts keeps coming up.  But, I won't buy most of this stuff.  While they do have a line of silicone products, and a few unfinished wooden rattles that I would buy, most of everything they offer is plastic.  The eco-friendly trend is to promote plastic products that are BPA and PVC free, but that doesn't make the plastic any more safe.  In an article posted by Time:

In a new study for the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers found that most plastic products leach endocrine-disrupting chemicals—and that was true even for products labeled “BPA-free.” Scientists led by George Bittner, a neurobiologist at the University of Texas, looked at 455 common plastic products and found that 70% tested positive for estrogenic activity. Once those products were subject to real-world conditions—microwaving or dishwashing—that proportion rose to 95%.

In talking about the same study, Discovery.com had some advice about how consumers should deal with plastics:

For now, it is literally impossible for consumers to know which plastics might contain hormone-disrupting chemicals, so the old advice holds: Avoid heating plastics, leaving them in the sun, putting hot materials in them or putting them through other stresses if you're planning to eat or drink their contents.

Perhaps the best thing consumers can do, Yaniger said, is to put the pressure on businesses, just like they did with BPA. Instead of BPA-free, his hope is for future labels to be marked EA-free to signal a lack of all kinds of estrogenic activity.

I agree that we don't know what these other chemicals in plastic will do to us.  And, we don't know what chemicals these manufacturers are using.  Regardless of the concerns about estrogenic properties, what else can the leeching these plastics do to our bodies?  Are we plastic repositories?  So, I choose to try to remove as much plastic from my life and home.  So, when folks, such as Green Sprouts, try to sell me some eco-friendly plastic over and over again, I don't buy it.    I especially don't buy it for my baby girl.

And, cornstarch isn't something I'm going to let my baby chew on either.  Corn is the #1 GMO food in the United States. So, unless it's organic, it's not going in baby girls' mouth.