Early this evening, we concluded two days of dialogue with officials at Health Canada by securing a formal confirmation that the agency will release detailed information from the recently published study of Bisphenol-A migration in non-polycarbonate and "BPA-Free" plastic baby bottles, including the specific amounts detected by the testing matched to the specific brands of bottles tested.

We called for this move last week in an initial analysis of the study, and applaud Health Canada's decision.

To date, Health Canada has declined to release anything beyond the average levels of BPA migration for the entire set of non-polycarbonate bottles. The agency then released additional correspondence to a Canadian news agency under an Access to Information request and blacked out the names of two bottles being discussed for their surprisingly high levels of BPA.

Z Recommends has previously broken news regarding the presence of BPA in non-polycarbonate plastics, including feeding utensils and sippy cups, and maintains the ZRecs Guide to Safer Children's Products, an extensive directory of information collected from well-placed company representatives regarding BPA and other chemicals of concern in children's products.

The agency did not name a date for the release of this information, but a Friday release seems likely.

That won't be the end of this story, by a long shot. We're looking forward to continuing to contribute to the discussion and debate regarding what Health Canada's findings mean, and will save most of our thoughts until we can see how the data shakes out. Suffice to say for now that the fallout will be significant, there will be several major interest groups involved (beyond any number of bottle companies and government scientists), and there may be fewer companies claiming to make BPA-free bottles - or making bottles at all - when this is all over.