Lead in Stanley Cup bottles ? The company responds and it’s not reassuring

La production de bouteilles en acier inoxydable émet 14 fois plus de gaz à effet de serre que des bouteilles en plastique. Illustration Unsplash – Florencia Simonini

If the Stanley Cup brand water bottles are a great success on the American continent, they have, for several days, been at the heart of a controversy. Some users report the presence of lead in the bottles. 

For several weeks, a frenzy around the brand's water bottles Stanley Cup has agitated the Americans. This bottle made of "90% stainless steel" is meant to be eco-friendly and reusable. But in recent days, a controversy has grown around these insulated bottles.

These are accused of being a danger to human health by some users, because they contain lead. As NBC News reports,several people have put forward this theory after using lead detection test kits on water bottles.

"Sealing material contains lead"

The manufacturer wanted to respond to these accusations: "Our manufacturing process currently uses an industry standard pellet to seal the insulation at the base of our products; the sealant material contains lead", he admitted to Today.com.

Adding: "Once sealed, this area is covered with a layer of durable stainless steel, making it inaccessible to consumers&quot ;.

If the brand spokesperson explained that the stainless steel layer had to come off so that the user was in direct contact with lead, something which is & ;quot;rare" according to him, his declaration did not reassure him.

The production of stainless steel bottles emits 14 times more greenhouse gases than plastic

On her site, Tamara Rubin, activist for consumer protection and specifically against lead poisoning, is one of the first to detect the presence of lead in bottles. She also declared having been contacted by several users on this subject.

Moreover, regarding the ecological side of the bottle, no study proves that it is more ecological than a plastic bottle. As the New York Times pointed out in 2009, the production of stainless steel bottles requires seven times more fossil fuels and emits 14 times more greenhouse gases only plastic bottles.