Philips AVENT iQ24 Steam Sterilizer
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Philips AVENTBrand: Philips Avent
Release Date: 2008-06-19
Model: SCF276/33
Product features:
- Sterilizes in 6 minutes, keeps contents sterile for up to 6 hours in mode 1
- Sterilizes in 6 minutes, keeps contents sterile for up to 24 hours large capacity, in mode 2
- Features with a large capacity that holds up to six 9-ounce Avent natural feeding bottles
- Fast and simple to use
- Digital display, electronic countdown and sound alerts
Description of Philips AVENT iQ24 Steam Sterilizer
Avent iQ24 Steam Sterilizer The Avent Digital Steam Sterilizer works quickly and continuously, keeping contents sterile until you need them, giving you more time to get on with your day. Advanced digital display and sound alerts keep you informed throughout the sterilization cycle. Based on the hospital principle, the intensive heat of the steam eliminates harmful bacteria. Philips Avent iQ products with advanced technology are intelligent and responsive - designed to make feeding and caring foBaby Products Reviews of Philips AVENT iQ24 Steam Sterilizer
Customer Review: Dangerous ... I wouldn't use it as suggested...
Summary: 1 Stars
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This review will probably pull a lot of vitriol from the woodwork, but it must be done.
If you haven't been reading up, following the news or doing your own reading and research into the current Plastic BPA fiasco, and if you have a child and you are concerned, then you should be educating yourself.
You may have read that `BPA Plastics' are a safe alternative to other plastics that are being used for baby bottles, but the truth is always something simpler than advertising.
Whether folks want to admit it or not though, is another matter.
BPA plastic still leaches carcinogens which then get absorbed by the cells. Consider just that alone. It's the biggest suspect now for breast cancer as this stuff just loves fat tissue.
While they do leach smaller amounts, they still leach. Both the AMA's findings and the American Plastics Council's recommendations, equally suggest not subjecting the plastic to extreme temperature changes, like intense cold or intense heat as this will cause a molecular breakdown within the plastic thus causing it to leak. I don't really know how much more direct they can be about that, even though they still like to say that it's safe. The part they're not elaborating on is that: it is safe in its inert, marketed state. Once you start using the product however, you're bound to go against the recommendations.
Do you freeze baby milk in these plastic bottles or other plastic containers? You shouldn't. Plastic is leaching into the milk. You're using the plastic against the recommendations.
Do you microwave your milk in these plastic containers? You shouldn't be. Plastic leaches into the milk at its highest rate under these conditions. You're using the plastic against the recommendations.
Have you ever put your finger on a bowl in the microwave after just one minute, and the bowl is hotter than the food? What do you think is happening with the plastic in this scenario?
Do you even put the plastic bottle onto a warmer and warm it from the bottom up? You're using the plastic against the standard recommendations.
What do you do? USE GLASS. It's that simple.
If you use this product as suggested with BPA free plastic AVENT bottles (as evinced from the packaging) and sterilize them, you are heating them up far beyond the limitations specified and thus putting your infant in possible danger.
The Sterilizer needs to heat up to 270 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 minutes to kill bacteria. On Philip's own website they cite the device reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit, which is enough to compromise the plastic -- any plastic and the sterilizer goes for a full 6 minutes. The more times the procedure of sterilization is repeated, the more the plastic is compromised.
As a parent, it's just not a chance I'm willing to take. While company spokespeople will come out and tell you it's safe, and that the operating temperature is within the norm to not cause the molecular breakdown within the plastic, there is enough information readily available that elucidates the opposite. Any plastic exposed to an excess of 130 degrees Fahrenheit for just two minutes will render an altered surface at the molecular level. The more you submit the plastic bottles to sterilization, the more you are advancing the breakdown and the leaching.
A lot of people have switched from plastic to glass in large numbers on their own because of the obvious nature of the problem and the wide-spread reporting of the problem. Several retailers were sold out for months last year, but they have finally caught up with the demand.
If you're older than 30 years old, you're probably a person who was brought up on glass infant feeding bottles. While plastic feeding bottles were available in the late seventies, they didn't become common until the early to mid-eighties. I won't go into the numbers about certain widely-reported problems with infantile neurologic problems, but correlations can be made with the spike in the statistics and the widespread use of the plastic.
I'm not denigrating this product, so let's be clear on that point. I'm just against the suggested use of it being coupled with plastic bottles which is foolhardy in this day and age, especially since glass bottles, which are safe, aren't hard to come by. Philips seems to be putting themselves on the hook here with a concern of liability that they probably didn't fully consider. I sterilized my glass bottles (not the nipples or caps) and never had any problems in the 2 years in practice. The product by itself is convenient and easy to use but I strongly advise against using this with ANY type of plastic bottle loaded into the chamber.
If you have this product and you do wish to use it, then use it with small 4 oz. Gerber bottles, which are inexpensive, safe and readily available. Again -- only use with glass bottles and NOT the suggested `BPA Free' plastic bottles or any other plastic bottle available.
It's hard to be completely safe these days, but our parents had glass bottles, the large majority of us had glass bottles and therefore we should extend the courtesy to our own children as this is the most common feeding apparatus for the first two years.
It may be more convenient for some to buy and use plastic, but the glass bottles are sturdy, do not break or crack and are quick to come by now. If you're thinking "why would you give a child a glass bottle', then you're not thinking about it properly. If your child throws the bottle a lot, just buy a strap for the bottle which are also readily available and easily obtained.
My son hasn't had any issue or complaints yet, and my guess is neither did your mothers.
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