Promoting Public Health: Recycling thermal cash register receipts contaminates paper products with BPA
vor 4 Monaten
Bisphenol A (BPA) — a substance that may have harmful health
effects — occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts,
scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they
add, is a source of BPA contamination of paper napkins, toilet
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vor 4 Monaten
Bisphenol A (BPA) — a substance that may have harmful health
effects — occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts,
scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they
add, is a source of BPA contamination of paper napkins, toilet
paper, food packaging and other paper products. The report, which
could have special implications for cashiers and other people who
routinely handle thermal paper receipts, appears in ACS’ journal
Environmental Science and Technology.
effects — occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts,
scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they
add, is a source of BPA contamination of paper napkins, toilet
paper, food packaging and other paper products. The report, which
could have special implications for cashiers and other people who
routinely handle thermal paper receipts, appears in ACS’ journal
Environmental Science and Technology.
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