What do Playtex, Gerber, Evenflo, Avent, Dr. Brown's, and The First Years have in common? Today, it's something special. Yesterday all six bottle companies agreed to stop selling polycarbonate (BPA-containing) baby bottles in the U.S.

Go ahead! Pat yourself on the back. Whether you called a company to complain or to check their claims against a Z Report or ZRecs Guide listing that shocked or angered you, or just put your purchasing power into BPA-free products, it's consumer interest in this issue that drove major retailers to ban BPA-containing baby bottles from their stores, and that commercial reality, as well as pending bans on BPA in several states, that have forced the big players' hand.

Philips Avent said the company stopped selling baby products with BPA at the end of 2008; other companies agreed to this deal yesterday. But given the lengthy supply chain these products pass through, they will still be on the market for months to come. Consumers should still check package labeling and trusted sources for information like the ZRecs Guide. Avent's Original Airflex bottles, for example, are still available on Amazon.com, as are their Tempo nursers, which are made of polycarbonate but contain milk or formula in a disposable polyethylene bag.

ZRecs had received hints of this kind of movement from several companies at the ABC Kids' Expo in November 2008, but nothing solid enough to publish.

For a full list of products being discontinued by each company, check out our list on Polliwogged.