BPA in cash register receipts -

[ASusan]

like I need something else to obsess about!!

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene..._your_receipts

Warner...turned up BPA-based receipts in use the last time he looked. Which was last month.

And the amount receipts carry isn’t trivial.

“When people talk about polycarbonate bottles, they talk about nanogram quantities of BPA [leaching out],” Warner observes. “The average cash register receipt that's out there and uses the BPA technology will have 60 to 100 milligrams of free BPA.” By free, he explains, it’s not bound into a polymer, like the BPA in polycarbonates. It’s just the individual molecules loose and ready for uptake.

[annettemarie]

Oh my gosh.

[allnaturalmom]

Those poor cashiers handling those things everyday. Ugh... And every now and then my kiddos will ask to hold the receipt as we walk out of a store... Not anymore!

[racheleuphoria]

Yep, I read that recently too. How annoying.

[talia rose]

yet another sad way BPA is leaching into our lives.....

[AngelBee]

What??? Oh no...