I am deeply saddened. I love my Sigg bottle. I use it constantly. Each of family members own a Sigg (except for the little one that lost hers). When the dangers of BPA hit the airwaves, Sigg and Kleen Kanteen were touted to be the best, safest water bottles. I invested in Sigg believing I was doing the right thing.
Basically, Sigg is saying that they never claimed to not contain BPA, but only that no BPA was leached from their bottles. The truth is that no one could ever get Sigg to admit whether or not they used BPA, they were always very careful in the wording they used, we trusted that they did not. Since their liner was "proprietary" information, they were not forced to disclose to us just what they used. Their liner did not leach nearly as much BPA as other bottles, but those tests seem to have been done on NEW bottles. I wonder how dented bottles would have held up to the testing. How does age affect the testing?
In 2006 Sigg began developing a new BPA free liner. So now they can claim loudly to be BPA Free. How do you know which liner you have? Check in inside of your bottle. Pale yellow means you have the new EcoCare BPA free liner. Shiny copper bronze indicates the old liner.
So, let's look at some dates. Sigg began using it's new liner in August of 2008. It is only now, a year later, that they are finally admitting to the use of BPA in the old liner. There are tons of bottles with that old liner still sitting on shelves and still be shipped by online retailers. Wouldn't it have been great of Sigg to pull them from retailers a year ago?! Wouldn't it be great if you could order a Sigg and be certain you're getting the newer, safer liner? It would be, but it's not.
In addition to that, Zrecommends has gotten information from one of their readers who owns a new bottle that has the liner flaking off. How safe could that possibly be? This new liner might be safe, but it certainly doesn't seem to be holding up.
The bottom line is that the trust that Sigg once had is now broken. They lied to us. They now seem to have an inferior product that they claim to be safer. I simply can not support a company after learning all of this. The Sigg bottles will be replaced, but NOT with newer BPA free Siggs.