Growing fury over Sigg’s BPA revelation
Mounting customer fury has led Sigg boss Steve Wasik to make a second apology over revelations that linings of the company’s older water bottles contain bisphenol A.
On a US blog, the CEO of the Swiss-based company admitted the revelation that Sigg bottles made before August 2008 contained ‘trace amounts’ of BPA had breached the trust of its customers. Wasik has already apologised on the company’s website.
He said Sigg first took a decision to work towards removing the controversial chemical from its fashionable metal water bottles in 2006 – with the first BPA-free containers rolling off the production line at the end of last summer.
“We were right to make the announcement. But I was wrong to have waited this long, says Wasik.“People have trusted Sigg and my decision breached that trust. I wish I could turn back the clock and fully disclose the BPA content in our liners.
