Comment by bengale
2 days ago
I don't want to be a downer on this because it sounds like a cool system, but it might be worth checking whats in the receipt paper as a lot of it is pretty bad for you:
https://toxicfreefuture.org/press-room/new-study-finds-toxic...
Yes, the main problem is the paper with bisphenol, which has been banned in Europe.
Even though bisphenol-A is banned in EU, I believe bisphenol-B is still allowed. I suspect - though I don't know how to research whether it's true or false - that everyone just switched to bisphenol-B, which is said to be either similarly, or more toxic than BPA... :(
Even assuming that "BPA-free" paper I'd buy is really so, and not just BPA-covered one imported from China and said/labeled to be "BPA-free" by someone somewhere in the pipeline...
You need to go out of your way to buy phenol-free paper. It's a thing but unfortunately it's a niche rather than the default.
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Yes. A short video I watched mentioned that even touching these thermal papers with normal gloves is unsafe.
The receipts that a large majority of humanity has been handling on a daily basis for decades? Unsafe? In what way?