BPA on Receipts: Getting Under Our Skin
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 09/01/2017

Using skin lotion or hand sanitizer before touching thermal paper (cash register receipts and printed tickets) can facilitate the absorption of BPA into the body.

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Wait, Why BPA Hasn’t Been Banned? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-bpa-hasnt-been-banned/) Check out the video!

More on BPA in:
• How to Avoid the Obesity-Related Plastic Chemical BPA (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-avoid-the-obesity-related-plastic-chemical-bpa/)
• Is Canned Fruit as Healthy? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-canned-fruit-as-healthy/)
• BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/bpa-plastic-and-male-sexual-dysfunction/)

Other examples of Food and Drug Administration failings include:
• Artificial Food Colors and ADHD (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/artificial-food-colors-and-adhd)
• Antibiotics: Agribusinesses’ Pound of Flesh (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antibiotics-agribusinesses-pound-of-flesh)
• Aspartame and the Brain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspartame-and-the-brain)
• Do Antidepressant Drugs Really Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-antidepressant-drugs-really-work)

There’s another class of concerning plastics compounds, phthalates. More here:
• Avoiding Adult Exposure to Phthalates (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-adult-exposure-phthalates/)
• Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lowering-dietary-antibiotic-intake/)
• What Diet Best Lowers Phthalate Exposure? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-best-lowers-phthalate-exposure)

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