cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47760122
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A post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @dramypsyd@ohai.social saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.
Receipts are mostly printed on thermal paper that contains toxic chemicals. Not sure about the testosterone thing but receipts aren't the best for you.
Most stuff that's not designed to be ingested is bad if it is ingested but there's this one simple trick to avoid any problem. Don't ingest it
It's ok to play with mercury, just don't ingest it.
BPA baby
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
it's true, but the amount of BPA one picks up from handling receipts, even as a cashier for years like I was, is negligible. Much less than people pick up from other sources, and not enough to disrupt hormones. I'm not worried about it.
Bpa in till roll is banned in the EU.
"Some workers may be more exposed to BPA than the general public (Bousoumah et al., 2021). As an example, BPA was previously used in thermal receipt papers; as a result, cashiers were highly exposed to BPA via skin contact due to frequently handling receipts (Björnsdotter et al., 2017). A restriction introduced under REACH banned the use of BPA in thermal paper in 2020."
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/peoples-exposure-to-bisphenol-a
Luckily we got the rule before we brexited. I asked on the intranet in a previous job if our till roll has BPA, and they told me it doesn't because it's illegal under EU law.