Presented by Tim Loughton MP, Shadow Minister for Children, during a ceremony at BPA Baby & Child on Monday 12th October, the overall winner of the Concept & Innovation 2009 Award was Claire Mitchell with her product Chillipeeps. 

Impressed 

The judges were impressed with this simple, yet extremely effective product, which has the potential to be a ‘must have’ item for mothers who choose to bottle feed their babies. Chillipeeps is a teat in a pod that is pre-steralised ready for 1st use and can be directly attached to a ready made baby formula milk carton. Easy to attach, use the seal in-situ, remove, clean and then steralise, ready for the next use. 

Two Awards 

This year, the Concept and Innovation Awards were split into two recognising two distinct phases in product development. BPA Concept acknowledges products still in their early visionary phase, while BPA Innovation acknowledges products developed to a potential production stage. 

The Winner of Concept 2009 was Robert Wakerell with his Omnibus product. This is a new child car vehicle restraint concept with an emphasis on providing postural support to the child in transit. It is suitable for use with any 3-point seat belt and the integrated base model is ISOFIX compatible. 

The winner of the Innovation Award was Gavin Reay with his original idea - a Milk Scoop & Counter. This self-levelling scoop can count for you, reducing some of the stresses of preparing formula milk. Powder levelling is integral to the scoop and as a back up, the counter reminds how many scoops have been taken. 

Peter White, BPA chief executive commented: “The standard of entries this year was extremely high and I continue to be awestruck by the 'inventiveness' of some of these products. We are proud and privileged to bring these to the attention of the industry.”