Hegen Baby Basic Starter Kit

Both bottle bodies are PPSU, named exactly for the finished bottles in the kit rather than for a component, and the material name sits alongside an explicit BPA, BPS and phthalate-free scope — PPSU is the strongest of the plastic options in this category. The resin grade and the resin maker are not published, and no NSF/ANSI 51, EN 14350 or LFGB material verification accompanies the name.

Both bottles in the kit are PPSU, a named high-temperature polymer, and the kit is free of BPA, BPS and phthalates — the BPS statement matters because it rules out the usual structural substitute instead of stopping at BPA-free. An independent reviewer who has used these bottles repeats the same free-from list and adds PVC-free. No migration or leaching results are published for the finished bottles, and the teat and storage-lid polymers are not named.

These are moulded PPSU bottles rather than painted glass, which is the lower-risk construction for this hazard, and parents do read volume off the bottle during feeds. Whether the volume markings and exterior graphics are printed in ink or moulded into the body is not published, and no lead or heavy-metal result is given for those exterior surfaces.

Hegen's PPSU bottles tolerate −20°C to 180°C, which covers boiling, steam sterilising and dishwasher cycles, and long-term users report no cracking after repeated drops. That temperature range is given for the PPSU bottle line rather than stated for this kit, no particle-shedding or migration testing at sterilising temperature is published, and no replacement interval accompanies the durability claim.

The teat is presented only by shape and function — breast-like, anti-colic, latch-supporting, with flow sizes sold separately. The polymer is never named and no grade is given, so neither food-grade nor medical-grade silicone is established, and the kit-wide BPA, BPS and phthalate-free statement is the only chemistry attached to it: no biocompatibility documentation, no nitrosamine and no siloxane results.

We queried the full CPSC recall corpus — 9,944 records spanning June 1973 to August 2026 — and Hegen USA appears nowhere in it, in any role, at any date. Control counts in that same corpus (86 pacifier records, 1,470 toy records, 332 crib records) show infant and juvenile product classes are covered, so the clean result reflects the brand's absence rather than a query that missed.

A concrete teat replacement interval is published — every 2 to 3 months, or immediately at the first sign of cracking, thinning, stickiness or shape change — alongside cleaning and inspection guidance. No matching replacement interval or degradation signal is given for the bottle bodies themselves, and the kit's own durability and 'designed to grow with your baby' language points away from a bottle-body service life.

The starter kit carries free-from marks for BPA, BPS and phthalates, but no certification, testing programme, standard or laboratory is named for it anywhere, and no certificate or report reference of any kind is published for the bottles, teats or lids.

Material and manufacturing disclosure stops at PPSU for the bottle bodies — the country of manufacture, the factory, and the teat and lid materials are not published, and no warranty term is given for the kit.