If you believe what you read about BPA and its harmful effects on human health, a topic that we here at ACSH have taken on many times, the latest development from Frederick vom Saal, Professor of Biological Sciences at Missouri University and perhaps the best-known fringe anti-BPA activist posing as a scientist, might stop your shopping habits, or at least make you think twice before choosing to get a receipt. In his latest fear-mongering attempt, he tries to link BPA from receipts to increased levels of BPA in the blood stream. So what?
Researchers had subjects use hand sanitizer and then hold
thermal paper receipts. Subjects then ate French fries using their hands.
Following the consumption of the fries, researchers measured the level of BPA
in the blood of the subjects, and found that BPA was “absorbed very rapidly.”
To which vom Saal concludes: “BPA from thermal papers
will be absorbed into your blood rapidly; at those levels, many diseases such
as diabetes and disorders such as obesity increase as well. Use of BPA or other
similar chemicals that are being used to replace BPA in thermal paper pose a
threat to human health.”…..To Read More….
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