BPA Information

Royal Springs OH&S Policies include our ongoing commitment of using as and wherever available and possible PBA free products.

See more information on the issue of BPA under Related Information:
at the “Links to relevant and interesting information”

Or copy the links below direct into your browser bar-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/australia-wont-ban-toxic-bpa-20101126-18a7y.html
http://www.bpa-free.com.au/
http://www.bisphenol-a.org/

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/8257129/the-toxic-truth

Change your Bottle top “Spring Water Bottle” to one of our BPA Free Royal Springs or the BPA Free POU mains connected water cooler

it is safer,
It is easier
And there are no problems with any of the Royal Springs automatic See a typical example of a POU Mains Connected water coolers with out any bottles

Up on our request to comment on the status of the the bottles on of one of our suppliers, there exact reply was as followed:
-Our filter bottles are a mixture of ABS which has BPA in it (Top bowl) as plastic no BPA (bottom bowl) and Polypropylene no BPA ( Filter housing)

BPA is Bisphenol I have attached some info below. From what I can understand, this is mainly an issue if the product is or has been in contact with hot water. Apparently hot water makes a chemical in the BPA leach more readily which can be harmful.

One opinion is summerised here as followed-
Researchers from government agencies, academia, and industry worldwide have studied the potential for bisphenol A (BPA) to migrate from polycarbonate products into foods and beverages. These studies consistently show that the potential migration of BPA into food is extremely low, generally less than 5 parts per billion under conditions typical for uses of polycarbonate products. At this level, a consumer would have to ingest more than 1,300 pounds of food and beverages in contact with polycarbonate every day for an entire lifetime to exceed the safe level of BPA set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Consequently, human exposure to BPA from polycarbonate plastics is minimal and poses no known health risk.

The use of polycarbonate plastic for food contact applications continues to be recognized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the European Commission Scientific Committee on Food, the United Kingdom Food Standards Agency, the Japan Ministry for Health and Welfare and other regulatory authorities worldwide.