Bisphenol A (BPA) has been a chemical item of great health
concerns for the past few years. It's common in many plastics, including
plastic food and beverage containers, inner epoxy linings of cans used for
canned foods, thermal paper, and paper money.
BPA leaches into the liquids and foods in those containers.
It also leaches into your blood through the skin while handling paper money and
thermal paper, commonly used for printing receipts.
Although the FDA refuses to consider BPA unsafe, other
nations have. Several have banned BPA. The researched health hazards include
links to cancer, especially breast cancer, and hormone imbalances causing
physical/sexual manifestations that affect both genders of all ages.
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