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High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers (www.theguardian.com)

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Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California’s safety rule, research finds

Paper receipts from major retailers in the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California’s safety threshold, new research has found.

The findings are being used as evidence in legal action aimed at pressuring retailers to stop using receipt paper treated with bisphenol S, or BPS, which is linked to cancer and reproductive problems.

The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) non-profit has sent violation notices to about 50 major retailers alerting them to the exceedance of California’s Proposition 65 limits for BPS.

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[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone has any info of receipts from other places?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

Thermal print receipts are the problem. I suspect it’s just as toxic if the thermal paper is used anywhere else. Free weak estrogen for all!

As a kid my dad would bring us rolls of fax machine paper that was thermal coated like this. Hope we’re ok we never had baby bottles at least though, so we made up our exposure other ways I guess! (BPA is now commonly banned in baby stuff, but definitely wasn’t in the 1980s).