{"id":38715,"date":"2025-04-14T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-paper-receipts-used-by-us-retailers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:11:19","slug":"high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-paper-receipts-used-by-us-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-paper-receipts-used-by-us-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California\u2019s safety rule, research finds<\/p>\n<p>Paper receipts from major retailers in the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California\u2019s safety threshold, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are being used as evidence in <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/system\/files\/prop65\/notices\/2025-00411.pdf\">legal action<\/a> aimed at pressuring retailers to stop using receipt paper treated with bisphenol S, or BPS, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/oehha.ca.gov\/proposition-65\/crnr\/bisphenol-s-bps-added-proposition-65-list-following-2023-meeting-developmental-and-reproductive\">linked to<\/a> cancer and reproductive problems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/paper-receipt-chemical-bisphenol-s\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding the receipts for 10 seconds absorbs enough bisphenol S to break California\u2019s safety rule, research finds Paper receipts from major retailers in the US are so laden with bisphenol S that holding one for 10 seconds can cause the skin to absorb enough of the highly toxic chemical to violate California\u2019s safety threshold, new &#8230; <a title=\"High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/high-levels-of-toxic-chemicals-found-in-paper-receipts-used-by-us-retailers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about High levels of toxic chemicals found in paper receipts used by US retailers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}