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Just a friendly reminder that most common types of thermal paper contain BPA or BPS. You really should be avoiding these endocrine disruptors when possible. h
by joezydeco 9y ago
Just a friendly reminder that most common types of thermal paper contain BPA or BPS. You really should be avoiding these endocrine disruptors when possible.
https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-paper https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
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- boss28 9y agoHi! I'm new here!
- Cynddl 9y ago“Most common types of thermal paper contain BPA or BPS” That's not valid everywhere. The European Union decided in 2016 to forbid the use of BPA in thermal paper. [1] BPA is currently still used but will be completely banned in 2020. And, even if BPS will be allowed, EU surveys seem to show that alternatives to BPA/BPS are being considered for thermal paper. [1] https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/bisphenol-a https://echa.europa.eu/hot-topics/bisphenol-a
- saiya-jin 9y agowhich is all dandy and cool and move into right direction, but it also means that you can now (and in following years at least) still encounter them every single day, ie with shopping bills.
- derefr 9y agoI mean, good for them, but if BPA is "still currently used" and alternatives to BPS are only "being considered", then in the EU both BPA and BPS are still in thermal paper right now, yes? So, in fact, it is valid to say that "most common types of thermal paper contain BPA and BPS."
- joezydeco 9y ago...and will continue to be, long after the EU passes its rules.
- simonsarris 9y agoI noticed the Carrefour receipts in France say "BPA free" on the back.
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- Justin_K 9y agoWhy must every post on HN have a (surprisingly) high ranking post just crapping all over some aspect of a project?
- joezydeco 9y agoIf someone did a HN post on their awesome tritium-faced retro clock project, I would hope someone would be there to educate the younger readers about the history of that material as well. If you really think I was shitting on the project, my apologies. I prefaced the sentence with "friendly reminder" as in "hey, perhaps this is something you should know about your materials, just like working with tritium". And, at the end of the day, I didn't upvote myself this far. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (And for the record, the project is pretty neat).
- pokemongoaway 9y agoAre you more upset that the post is factual or that it is allowed to exist?
- lifeformed 9y agoIt doesn't feel like it's "crapping all over" the post - it's just a off-hand safety tip that isn't judging anything.
- DanBC 9y agoIt's off topic, mildly tedious, and yet it's somehow stuck to the top of the thread while more interesting posts are buried below it.
- lifeformed 9y agoThe thread positions aren't exactly sorted by most-upvoted to least, a lot of new comments end up on top.
- chillingeffect 9y agoit's a blessing and a curse.... when solving bugs it helps to have lots of different pairs of eyes on it. it's a natural tendency of people to want to warn others about a danger they've experienced. but yeah, sometimes that does turn into a kind of contest where someone tries hard to find the detail that will mark them as an expert. That can be very tiring. If people try too hard, it shows and makes others tired.