Watch out for the harmful store receipt 小心收據有毒

Your store receipt may be harmful with BPA

We already knew that bisphenol-A is found in baby bottles and food cans. But it’s also present in the cash-register paper used by many businesses, and in much higher concentrations than those other sources.

The nonprofit Environmental Working Group had a few dozen receipts tested at the University of Missouri, and 40 percent of them had high levels of BPA. “Wipe tests” also were done, proving that some of the chemical can come off on your hands.

Since it’s impossible to tell which brands of receipt paper have BPA and which don’t, follow these tips after shopping:
*Don’t hang onto the receipt. Record it in your checkbook register and get rid of it.
*But don’t recycle it with the rest of your paper. A 2004 German study found BPA in recycled paper products, including toilet paper. So trash it.
*Wash your hands after disposing of the receipt.
*Don’t let your kid play with it. full story

收據或含有危性雙酚A（酚甲烷）

雙酚A是一種會影響生殖系統的內泌干擾素，早前已被發現在奶瓶和罐頭內，如今最新研究發現，商家所採用的收據紙張內，也含有這種化學物，而且含量更高。基於消費者很難分辨到底那家店的收據紙含雙酚A，因此專家建議：
*不要保留收據，把消費數額記錄在支票本。
*不要與其他紙張一起回收，德國在2004年的研究發現，在回收紙產品中，包括衛生紙內，含有雙酚A。
*把收據丟棄後，把雙手洗乾淨。
*不要讓小孩觸摸這些收據紙。