Are you still touching receipts?
— Paul Saladino, MD (@paulsaladinomd) October 28, 2024
A recent study showed that cashiers have high levels of these endocrine disrupting compounds in their bodies (PMID: 26309242) pic.twitter.com/YoMSc1tnHx
This is why you don't ever want to touch the receipts on thermal paper. These thermal paper receipts contain contain BPA and BPS.
"Harmful BPA Replacements Contaminate Store Receipts," Samara Geller, (EWG), Thomas Galligan, Ph.D. (EWG), December 9, 2020.
These are endocrine-disruptive chemicals that can actually be absorbed through your skin. So just touching one at a grocery store every once in a while isn't the end of the world, but I would like to avoid as many endocrine disruptors in my life, thank you, as I can. So, I either don't get the receipt, or I'm just going to use my handy-dandy wool shirt here to put the receipt in the trash and not touch it. So if you are touching a lot of receipts in your daily life, don't touch the thermal paper receipts, and you will decrease your exposure to BPA and BPS and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can be messing up your hormones.
Don't touch them.
