Credit card receipts pose cancer risk: new report
Credit card receipts pose cancer risk: new report
Checking the bill for the weekly shopping, or fingering through credit card receipts from the night before is never good for you, but a new French report is expected to warn that the print-outs actually pose a potentially serious health risk.
We’ve always known bills and receipts were bad for mental health, and most of us will have suffered mild heart palpitations at looking at the last night's ATM withdrawal slip and credit card receipts.
However, according to French radio RTL a study by a French sanitary safety agency is expected to report this week that these print-outs could pose a more serious risk to our physical health than to our state of mind.
Anses, France’s national agency for sanitary safety, looks set to declare that bisphenol, a chemical compound involved in the printing of supermarket receipts and ATM tickets, is an ‘endocrine disruptor' that can cause hormonal imbalances, which could then lead to cancer and birth defects.
http://www.thelocal.fr/page/view/shopping-receipts-could-pose-health-risk-study#.UWL1vDf4KSo
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