Health risk claim over BPA in till receipts

 

In the U.S., Environmental Working Group (EWG) claimed 40% of till receipts from McDonald's, CVS, KFC, Whole Foods, WalMart, Safeway and the U.S. Postal Service contain high levels of the controversial chemical BPA. (Receipts from Target, Starbucks, Bank of America ATMs and some others were BPA-free or contained only trace amounts.) BPA is associated with the use of thermal paper. EWG claimed total amounts of BPA on the receipts tested were 250 to 1,000 times greater than other sources of BPA exposure, including canned foods, baby bottles and infant formula.

See http://www.ewg.org/bpa-in-store-receipts/release

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