• The Washington Post, Friday, April 18, 2008 10:45 AM

Wal-Mart is immediately halting sales of baby bottles, sippy cups, pacifiers, food containers and water bottles made with bisphenol A in its Canadian stores, and will stop selling baby bottles made with the controversial chemical in its U.S. stores early next year.

Spurred by customer demand, other retailers are also stocking products made without the chemical. Target began testing glass baby bottles in its stores in January and offering them online in February. Babies R Us says its sales of glass bottles have increased fivefold since last spring.

Wal-Mart's moves follow Monday's release of a draft report from the U.S. National Toxicology Program that expresses concern that BPA, which is used to make plastic, could cause behavioral changes in infants and children and trigger the early onset of puberty in females. The report also says more studies should be done. The American Chemistry Council says that recent media reports are "unnecessarily confusing and frightening the public."

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