TOXIN ALERT!!!

BPA Upon Receipt?

You know that hormone-disrupting bisphenol-A (BPA) can leach out of plastic bottles and tin cans, but your greatest exposure may be from those thermal-image receipts store clerks and restaraunt wait staff hand you daily. According to John C. Warner, cofounder of the Warner Babcock Institue for Green Chemistry in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the nanograms of BPA from plastic hardly compare to the 60 to 100 mg of ready-to-absorb BPA on receipts. More research must be done, but in the meantimes, don't keep receipts for longer than necessary, and avoid taking them when purchasing food, tickets, or other nonreturnable items.