#XRFTesting: Avent Glass Baby Bottle
Introduction (for those new to this website):
Tamara Rubin is a federal-award-winning independent advocate for consumer goods safety and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children, her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005. Since 2009 Tamara has been using XRF testing (a scientific method used by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals), including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic. All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable. Items are tested multiple times, to confirm the test results for each component. Tamara’s work was featured in Consumer Reports Magazine in February of 2023.
Avent Glass Baby Bottle by Phillips:
All Components were Non-Detect (ND) for Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, and Arsenic!!!
The exact items tested are featured in the photo below.
This product is evidence of the fact that a company can use Lead-free paint for the exterior measurement markings along the side of a glass baby bottle!
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Hi,
I’m having trouble locating information on lead on the Evenflo glass bottles. Did you happen to test any? I know it’s made of tempered glass from Mexico, but that’s all I can confirm.
Thank you!
I tested some and I believe they were negative… I will see if I can find the results.
Any luck finding the Evenflo results?
Curious about this too. I have them. Need to know, I’ve had a huge house purge. Thank you so much for your work. It’s so important.
Tamara, do you have any info on this? or Evenflo nipples, since they are compatible with Lifefactory bottles and most people don’t like the nipples that come with those bottles?
Thank you for testing! I can’t seem to find these for purchase, I only see the natural ones. Did you purchase on Amazon? Also have to tested nanobebe?
I did not purchase this, it was sent in by a reader for testing. Here’s the baby bottle guide (which is a work in progress):
https://tamararubin.com/lead-safe-mama-baby-bottle-guide/
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Hi Tamara! Have you tested the Avent PLASTIC bottles? the ones with the blue lines? I posted the picture you asked me of it on the facebook thread!
Thank you so much!!
I have not tested any of the plastic bottles from Avent yet. Sorry about that. If you want to buy one and have it shipped to me via Amazon (and I don’t need to return it to you) I will test it in my next round. Let me know. (if it is lead-free I will give it to a local family who might use it, after I have tested it/ created a blog post about it.)
Hi Tamara, wondering if you received Avent Plastic bottles and were able to test for lead?
Hello Rakshya, Avent plastic bottles are Lead-free.
Thanks for commenting!
– Tamara
Thanks so much Tamara! If you have the results pls post them
Any update on testing of avent plastic bottles and nipples? Daycare won’t allow glass.
hello Tamara have you ever tested born free baby glass bottle which is stopped producing now?
Thank you so much Tamara for testing the avent glass bottles! I almost had a panic attack because I realized the bottles have paint on outside and I soak my bottles. Glad I came here and the paint for outside markings is lead free
Hi Tamara I thought you tested Nuby bottles and found the red markings to be extremely high in lead but I can’t find the post on your website anymore. Did you have to delete it?
I don’t believe I have tested that brand.
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Sorry I must have gotten it confused with Nuk! My baby’s bottle started flaking it’s markings off and since it’s a bright red colour I was worried. Hopefully you end up testing it in the future for all the mamas! Thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you so much for putting in this work and sharing the knowledge.
Thank you for all your work testing bottles! I’m looking at these tall agent natural bottles and the short ones and am baffled as to why the short ones have nipples with cadmium but the tall ones do not? Any insight?
Different years of manufacture.
Thank you! So are the newer nipples now safe in both bottles?
Hello, I followed link to purchase the Avent glass 8oz bottles you tested. But noticed that specific Avent bottle design wasn’t made anymore. There is a new design, not sure if you’ve tested the new design bottles anywho, thank you for your dedication to a serious issue.
Hi Tamara,
I was looking at your baby bottle guide for the glass bottles and wanted to purchase this one because it was the only one without cadmium/ antimony. However it’s out of stock. What would be your top choice considering this one is no longer in production?
Thanks!
Hello, I was hoping I can be redirected to another lead free bottle like the one on this article since it seems like the link is no longer working or has been discontinued. Thanks in advance!
Here’s our Baby Bottle Guide:
https://tamararubin.com/lead-safe-mama-baby-bottle-guide/
And here’s our shopping site – which has a LEAD FREE BABY BOTTLES page:
http://www.shopleadsafemama.com
This affiliate link for Avent bottle no longer works. 🙁
Hi Tamara, I am in between purchasing this bottle or the bibs bottle with the rubber nipple. On that article you mentioned it is a better option to have trace cadmium in the glass vs the nipple, and that all silicone nipples you have tested have been positive for trace cadmium. However I’m seeing this bottle is negative for everything. Am I correct then in assuming this nipple is also free of trace cadmium? Thank you!
Hi Tamara, Im a very worried mama. I have the agent plastic bottles and last minute needed to start pumping for my 4 day old and after sterilizing the bottles and breast pump equipment realized I hadn’t changed the water in the pot. I noticed a smell coming from the pot and then a film on the parts. Bdo you think I could have harmed my baby? Do you have any suggestions of what I could do to detox her or any tests you’d recommend that I get?
Thanks
Have the new glass Phillips avent (natural) been tested? This is an old test and who knows if they’ve kept up with the quality or if they decided “time to go cheap”.
(redacted) tested the AVENT bottles twice in 2024. First test: no detectable lead. 2nd test: 33 ppm lead. I am having a hard time deciding if this bottle is safe to use. I really liked them with my 1st baby.
Those tests were likely done in a contaminated environment, and appear to have been done by an unqualified / inexperienced instrument operator. The instrument operator conducting those tests has also been under investigation by the FDA for fraudulent business practices.