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That's bad. >> A receipt. >> Yeah, don't touch it. >> What do you mean don't touch it?
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>> Um, so receipts are >> Why are you touching it like that? >> Covered with BPA. I mean, literally just
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covered. That's how it prints it, right? This isn't like a printer. This is
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printed. It's a thermal paper and and the BPA is allowing the printing to happen. And so, they're covered with
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bisphenol A. People that are handling receipts, like cashiers that are handling receipts, have really high
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levels of BPA. Um particularly if they use like hand sanitizing lotion or any lotion any sort of cream makes the BPA
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again BPA is fat soluble. These creams um the hand sanitizers are carrying it inside to your inside your bloodream
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about 100fold higher than not having that. So first of all you can opt to have an receipt emailed to you if you
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need the receipt. I would do that or you know don't touch it. But also, if you
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work in the cash, if you're a cashier and you work in this industry, really,
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really please wear nitrial gloves. I mean, this is like your BPA levels. If you were to go get them measured, which
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you can, there are companies out there now that do measure BPA levels in urine, you will see that they are extremely
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extremely high. So, um, nitro gloves will protect you from from the BPA getting across your your dermal barrier
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and getting to your bloodstream. Latex gloves do not. So, make sure they're nitro gloves. And for people that are
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not in the industry, try to avoid the receipts. I mean, it's a really big exposure to BPA that people aren't even
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realizing. So really, really, really important to remember, receipts are a very big source of BPA that people are
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not thinking about, particularly people that are routinely handling these receipts.