SIGG
September 8, 2009
As most people have heard, Sigg is offering to exchange bottles with the ‘old liner’ which was made with traces of BPA (the Canadian Government warns BPA is a risk for infants, young children and pregnant women, it is also a risk to the environment where it builds up in our waters and harms fish and other organisms – thanks, I’ll pass on BPA).
Movement to Health will exchange all the bottles with the old liner that we have in stock at the studio for the new BPA-Free bottles, and with the same shipment we will also send back any bottle that you purchased from the studio. Conact me donna@elationcentre.com so we can arrange to have your bottle shipped with ours. I need your bottles before Sept 21. Note you may not get your bottle back with the same design!
Note that your bottle may be shipped with 50 others, if you prefer to have yours handled on it’s own, see below for the exchange procedure and to make sure you have the old liner in your bottle.
Note that Sigg maintains the trace of BPA do not leach into your water, but personally I don’t want to take the chance, so the exchange is voluntary and we have to pay to ship the bottles back to Toronto. Sigg will pay to ship them back to us.
For more information, here is an Ottawa Citizen Article by Joanne Chianello
How to return your old Sigg bottle
Since August 2008, Sigg bottles have been manufactured with the new BPA-free lining. But even if you purchased yours after that date, it may still have the old liner. Look inside your bottle: the liner with trace amounts of BPA will be a shiny copper colour, while the new “EcoCare” one is a matte yellow.
- Check with the store where you purchased your bottles — many retailers are exchanging the old Siggs for new ones (and absorbing the shipping fees as a service for their customers). – See my comment above for Movement to Health Returns…
- If you’re sending your old Siggs in yourself, go online to www.mysigg.com/liner. On the left-hand side, click on menu item “Exchange Program.”
- Near the bottom of the page are downloadable forms specifically for Canadian customers. You’ll need two: one is a shipping label, so that your bottles will get to the right part of the Sigg Canada warehouse. The second one is a return form for Canadian customers. Make sure you fill this out in full so that the company knows where to send your new bottles.
- This is not a recall, but a voluntary replacement program. The company is not offering refunds. And you’ll have to pay the postage for sending the old Siggs back to the company.
- The exchange program ends Oct. 31, 2009.
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