Scientific Study- 40% Of All Store Receipts Covered In Dangerous Hormone-Disrupter

Taichief · #1 04.08.2010, 08:04

http://www.springerlink.com/content/d5j507113141120h/

why is it always the reproductive system under attack?

Angela-74 · #2 04.08.2010, 08:17

I thought it was always cancer

Wasted · #3 04.08.2010, 08:32

Is that why the check out assistants are often in a bad mood?

mirfield · #4 04.08.2010, 08:46

It might explain why you were so grumpy.

Upthehatters2008 · #5 04.08.2010, 08:51

	Quote:	Taichief
	http://www.springerlink.com/content/d5j507113141120h/ why is it always the reproductive system under attack?

Oh well, back to shoplifting... Far healthier...

NotAllThere · #6 04.08.2010, 09:16

Right, so if you touch thermal paper continually over a 10 hour period, you'll absord 1/42nd of the maximum allowable daily dose. If the BPA actually makes it into your metabolism. And if you're using one of the 40% of printers that use it.

I'm terrified.

Taichief · #7 04.08.2010, 09:40

	Quote:	mirfield
	It might explain why you were so grumpy.

ha ha she still does it even though she knows I won't be claiming back the MWST on my rustico gipfel

Taichief · #8 04.08.2010, 10:12

	Quote:	NotAllThere
	Right, so if you touch thermal paper continually over a 10 hour period, you'll absord 1/42nd of the maximum allowable daily dose. If the BPA actually makes it into your metabolism. And if you're using one of the 40% of printers that use it. I'm terrified.

actually that was an old study here is a more recent one

http://www.ewg.org/bpa-in-store-receipts

between 0.8 and 3% by weight!!