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Interesting fact: BPA/epoxy resins are the active component of the thermal paper used in many receipts. Handling BPA paper results in a rise in BPA level in uri
by neuronexmachina 8y ago
Interesting fact: BPA/epoxy resins are the active component of the thermal paper used in many receipts. Handling BPA paper results in a rise in BPA level in urine detectable after 1 week.
https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i35/Touching-thermal-paper-receipts-extend.html https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i35/Touching-thermal-paper-r...
- toomuchtodo 8y agoThermal paper is toxic, and you should avoid handling it whenever possible. It is only a matter of time before it's banned due to its BPA content (which may, fingers crossed, accelerate the advent of digital receipts). DO NOT use hand sanitizer before or after handling thermal paper; it speeds the absorption of BPA.
- King-Aaron 8y ago> DO NOT use hand sanitizer before or after handling thermal paper; it speeds the absorption of BPA. Do you have a source on that? I'm certainly not disputing it. I'm just fascinated.
- toomuchtodo 8y agohttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110509 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1832525 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1832525
- sizzle 8y agoThis makes me wonder what off the shelf products are disrupting our biochemical pathways and if we should assume everything has the ability to, from home improvement projects to inhaling particles in the air from smoggy city. Any thoughts? This stuff is terrifying to say the least...
- Regardsyjc 8y agoI recently started reading The Politics of Cancer by Samuel Epstein. It was written in the 1970s and I hope/wish it is outdated because what I've read so far is terrifying. Someone reviewed the book on Amazon as a real life thriller... and they were right. I don't even want to finish the book because it's so depressing.