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Don't eat (or touch) your cash register receipt - BPA used as print fixative

By Jeff Buster
Created 10/22/2014 - 14:56

Who would have thought that a deadly chemical is used to fix the xerography on cash register receipts?   

bisphenol A (BPA) isn't what you want to be handling and absorbing....go shopping and get poisoned for paying!......read more here at Forbes.com [1]   Read more about thermal printing here at wikipedia [2]

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[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/10/22/cash-register-receipts-may-be-a-source-of-bpa-study-suggests/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_printing
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