BPA Free Thermal Receipt Paper Rolls

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As a business owner, the last thing you want to do is inadvertently hurt your customers or employees. If you're not using BPA-free thermal paper rolls for your receipts, though, you could be doing just that. BPA, or bisphenol A, has come increasingly under fire in recent years amid concerns about its impact on people's health and well-being. Many people are aware that BPA is frequently used to line soup cans and to strengthen plastic bottles, and the chemical is slowly disappearing from those types of packaging. However, there's one surprising place where it still has a strong foothold: paper receipt rolls. Learn what you can do as a business owner below.

Is BPA that Dangerous?

Before delving into the issue of BPA in paper receipt rolls, let's take a look at why this industrial chemical has stirred up so much controversy. BPA is a plastic component that is also a synthetic form of estrogen. It's been used in thousands of different household products. However, studies on animals have suggested that it can pose serious health risks too. In animal tests, BPA has been shown to possibly diminish intellectual capacity, cause abnormal reproductive system development and effect behavioral abnormalities.

In addition to these worrisome results, tests have also suggested that BPA may be linked to problems like early puberty, asthma, chemotherapy resistance, obesity, diabetes and reproductive system cancer. It is believed that BPA disrupts the endocrine system to cause these problems.

 Why is BPA Used in Thermal Paper Rolls?

Thermal paper rolls have been used to print receipts for years. They are convenient because no ink is required. Instead, the paper is coated on one side with specialized chemicals, and BPA has long been the chemical of choice. When heat or pressure is applied to the paper, images are produced. This helps keep costs low, which is a major concern for any business owner.

When the Environmental Working Group hired a lab to perform tests on heat-activated paper, the research showed that the typical thermal paper roll contained 0.8 to three percent BPA. The study found that BPA could easily stick to the skin. A July 2011 study by a group of Swiss scientists also showed that BPA could transfer to the skin from such rolls with ease, and their research suggested that it could penetrate the skin and possibly even enter the bloodstream.

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