Tritan had another desirable quality: Unlike many plastics, it didn't contain BPA, a chemical that, in large doses, caused hormone-related health problems in animals. The absence of BPA in Tritan ...

The study also looked at three different types of Tritan—a novel plastic marketed as a safe, estrogen-free alternative to BPA-laden polycarbonate—and found that all of them leached estrogen ...

Similarly, they detected BHPF in water from two bottles made of Eastman Tritan’s BPA-free copolyester. It’s unclear if the bottles Hu tested are available in the United States. But the U.S ...

In 2007, Eastman Chemical began marketing a tough new BPA-free plastic called Tritan. Business was good, says Lucian Boldea, a vice president at Eastman. "We were able to make the statement that ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Between 2010 and 2013, scientists from CertiChem, a private lab in Austin ...

They are using them so they are consuming BPA." Holmes, Wang and Jianyong Ma, PhD, a research scientist at UC, decided to test an array of drinking bottles made of Tritan to see if transient BPA ...

For example, among the more widely used plastics now marketed as "BPA-free" is Tritan copolyester, made by the Eastman Chemical Company. According to Eastman, sales of Tritan copolyester ...

New options are beginning to surface. Schmidt is developing an epoxy based on a molecule in Tritan — a BPA-free polymer manufactured by the Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tennessee ...

BPA is the starting material for making polycarbonate ... Bittner claimed in the peer-reviewed report that Eastman’s product Tritan, marketed to be completely free of estrogenic leaching ...

BPA (short for bisphenol A ... glass and a plastic called Tritan. The amounts of leached chemicals, however, ranged from around 10 to 20 nanograms per litre to about 70 to 80 nanograms per ...