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Science News: BPA Laces Store Receipts

Science News, Janet Raloff
Published July 28, 2010

People interested in limiting exposure to bisphenol A — a hormone-mimicking environmental contaminant — might want to consider wearing gloves the next time a store clerk hands over a cash-register receipt. A July 27 report by a public-interest research group has now confirmed many of these receipts have a BPA-rich powdery residue on their surface. But you can't tell which ones on the basis of a visual inspection. Click here to find out more! A building block of polycarbonate plastics, bisphenol A is also a biologically active estrogen mimic. Less well known, many thermal- and carbonless-copy papers also employ BPA to print images, generally store receipts. Read Raloff's entire article here: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/07/28/more-evidence-that-bpa...
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