Back in September, I wrote about banning BPA in infant food packaging here, but while organizing some paperwork in my home recently, I felt compelled to share another way BPA is making its way into our lives: receipts!
Even at very low levels, BPA has been linked to breast and prostate cancer, cardiac disease, obesity, diabetes, altered development of the brain and immune systems, lowered sperm counts and early puberty. So, even though the thermal paper receipts are more likely to have first hand affects on me (as the adult handling the receipts) or the clerks (working around them and touching them every day), it certainly isn’t something I want around my son. It is also something I feel all parents should know about; especially parents raising young children who might play with receipts and then put their hands in their mouths before washing.
