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Email this Article Print this PageReport Typo or Correction RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STARA U.S. study has found 40 per cent of receipts collected from major U.S. retailers, supermarkets, food chains, and gas stations contained BPA.Health
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Bisphenol A, the controversial chemical that Canada banned from baby bottles, may be coating the sales receipt you take at a store’s cash register.
In a study by a U.S. environmental group, 40 per cent of receipts collected from major U.S. retailers, supermarkets, food chains and gas stations contained BPA, known as a hormone-disrupting chemical.
The total mass of the chemical found on the 36 collected receipts was 250 to 1,000 times greater than the amount of BPA typically found in a can of food or that leaches from a BPA-based plastic baby bottle, according to the report by the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/843074--banned-chemical-coats-40-of-store-receipts?bn=1
Email this Article Print this PageReport Typo or Correction RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STARA U.S. study has found 40 per cent of receipts collected from major U.S. retailers, supermarkets, food chains, and gas stations contained BPA.Health
Banned chemical coats 40% of store receipts
August 2, 2010
Comments on this story (1)
Nancy J. White
LIVING REPORTER
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Bisphenol A, the controversial chemical that Canada banned from baby bottles, may be coating the sales receipt you take at a store’s cash register.
In a study by a U.S. environmental group, 40 per cent of receipts collected from major U.S. retailers, supermarkets, food chains and gas stations contained BPA, known as a hormone-disrupting chemical.
The total mass of the chemical found on the 36 collected receipts was 250 to 1,000 times greater than the amount of BPA typically found in a can of food or that leaches from a BPA-based plastic baby bottle, according to the report by the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C.
http://www.healthzone.ca/health/newsfeatures/article/843074--banned-chemical-coats-40-of-store-receipts?bn=1