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Forbes: BPA Concern ar Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and Others

Forbes.com, Siel Ju
Published July 29, 2010

These days every piece of paper from both green-minded or green-washing companies seems to have that cumbersomely long yet necessary tag line, "printed on 100% post-consumer recycled fiber with vegetable-based inks"--or some version thereof. I predict that this tag line is going to get even longer--especially for cash register receipts. I believe that "BPA-free" will soon be included in there somewhere. Why? Many of those receipts are covered in BPA, aka bisphenol-A, an endocrine disruptor linked to cancer, reproductive problems and lots of other ills. Click here to read this post.
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