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"Seeing Red: Next Installment in BPA-Paper Saga" [1]

"After concerns mounted about bisphenol A, a hormone-mimicking chemical lacing many cash-register receipts, Wisconsin-based Appleton Paper has begun incorporating tiny red fibers in its thermal receipt paper to show that it is BPA-free."

Janet Raloff, who broke the original BPA-receipts story, reports for Science News November 8, 2010 [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Chemicals in Fast Food Wrappers Show Up in Human Blood" (ENS)
[3]

Chemicals [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Public [6]
Source: Science News [2], 11/09/2010
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/seeing-red-next-installment-bpa-paper-saga [2] http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/65160/title/Seeing_red_Next_installment_in_BPA-paper_saga [3] http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2010/2010-11-08-01.html [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81