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Toxic receipts

The back of all Target receipts reminds customers that receipts are required for “All returns & exchanges” and that an ID may be required.

– Sheesh: The same toxic chemical—bisphenol A—that's shown up in baby bottles and canned goods is apparently also all over the receipts you get from stores and restaurants, and in much greater amounts. BPA was found in the coating used on cash register receipts in 40% of businesses tested, including McDonald's, Whole Foods, and Wal-Mart. It comes off on your hands, a scientist tells AOL News, and can get into your bloodstream through your skin. Read more. Caroline Miller, Newser.com
 
Without looking, how many receipts do you estimate you have in your car, wallet, pocket or purse?

 
 
Seven comments on this post so far. Add yours!
  • transplanted_texan on July 28 at 5:22 p.m.

    None in my wallet or pockets, but probably two or three in the front passenger car seat and almost all from the past couple months piled up on a downstairs desk.

  • transplanted_texan on July 28 at 5:24 p.m.

    Why don’t they just use normal printer paper?

  • Mr_Bloggy on July 29 at 7:57 a.m.

    Bisphenol A was originally bio-engineered by a “One World Government” consortium of Cuban, Soviet, and Swedish chemical engineers in the 1950s (Altenbrenner et al, 1963) in a Kenyan chemical factory that has mysteriously disappeared from global chemical factory registeries. Barack Obama, Sr, the African-Muslim father of our current POTUS was a lab aide employed by this group to perform simple lab maintenance and set up tasks (Council on Global Restorative Analysis - Annual Report, 2007).

    Bisphenol A, was reanalyzed and refined by Sandoz Laboratories in 1964. Counter-rotatory ions were adjusted to amplify very low level psychoactive qualities into a Grade 7-III(a) psycho-hypnotic intrusional agent (see: Annals of Biopharmacology, Vol. 3, pg 356, 1971). The chemical engineers at Sandoz under the supervision and progenitorial instruction of Dr. Albert Hoffman, developed an innovative epidermal uptake, absorption, distribution, metabolic and eliminational substrate delivery compound (Hoffman, Schneider, Melton, 1965).

    Bisphenol A was found in rice paper wrapped tablets on captured Viet Cong soldiers in Vietnam (Dorfmeier, 1972).

    Bisphenol A is lipid-stored and has extremely powerful accumulatory effects on tolerance suppression as well as therapeutic threshold maintenance. Experiments with Japanese Macaques found that Bisphenol A in very low doses over a surprisingly brief period of exposure created docile, easily commanded monkey families and communities. These Macaques lost certain cognitive and memory functions, including the ability to feed and shelter themselves (University of Washington Primate Center Unpublished Manuscript, 1979).

    George Soros purchased and currently holds 17 patents on Bisphenol A compounds and delivery substrates (Tea Party Review - Spring, 2010).

  • fortboise on July 29 at 4:14 p.m.

    Mr. Bloggy: brilliant! I see it’s all connected now! So obvious!

  • Sisyphus on July 29 at 4:23 p.m.

    LMAO—”Tea Party Review.” What an august publication that must be.

  • Gary D Rhodes on July 29 at 4:31 p.m.

    Speaking of Sandoz, I was wondering if anyone has been able to try LSD to cure migraine headaches.
    I’ve heard that one dose has cured people for life.

  • Appleton_Papers on August 09 at 9:01 a.m.

    Appleton Papers, which makes more than 50 percent of the receipt paper sold in the U.S., stopped using BPA in 2006. After reviewing available science we concluded removing BPA from our thermal products was the responsible thing to do. In doing so, we gave retailers and restaurants a safe, easy and cost-competitive choice. Our BPA-free thermal receipt paper is available globally.

    We realize that many of our competitors continue to use BPA despite mounting concerns about its safety. We are actively participating in the EPA’s BPA Alternatives in Thermal Paper Partnership. We hope the remainder of the thermal paper industry moves away from potentially harmful BPA. More information about the partnership is available on the EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/bpa/index.htm

    For more information about Appleton and our BPA-free thermal paper products, visit www.appletonideas.com.

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