Plastic Pollution

Kevin Garcia-Galindo | 10.8.2024 4:17 PM

Two of the largest baby bottle manufacturers, Handi-Craft and Philips North America, are facing separate class-action lawsuits for allegedly failing to warn parents that their baby bottles could leak microplastics, despite the fact that no plastic material exists that does not release microplastics under any kind of heat and pressure.

According to the lawsuits, the plaintiffs were "unable to determine…whether the Products are truly a safe choice and free of microplastics," unless information on the packaging informed them that microplastics come from plastic. Such an inference, according to the plaintiffs, would require possessing "specialized knowledge, skill, experience, or education in plastic composition."

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