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Science News: Skin no barrier to BPA

Finding suggests handling store receipts could be significant source of internal exposure

Science News, Janet Raloff
Published November 2, 2010

Bisphenol A readily passes through skin, French scientists report. Best known as an estrogen-mimicking constituent of some plastics and resins, BPA is also found in a large share of cash register receipt paper in the United States and Europe, a trio of studies recently indicated. One of the three also showed that the powdery coating easily rubs off onto the hands. “The new study is now unequivocal in showing that yes, BPA can go through human skin,” says Frederick vom Saal of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Read Raloff's entire article here: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64972/title/Skin_is_no_barrie...
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