About BPA in thermal paper

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April 3, 2012

U.S. Food and Drug Administration affirms safety of bisphenol A

On Friday March 30, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement affirming the safety of bisphenol A (BPA) use in food contact applications, stating that “the scientific evidence at this time does not suggest that the very low levels of human exposure to BPA through the diet are unsafe.” The FDA...

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February 7, 2012

Further scientific mischief, but no evidence linking thermal paper to health effects

Speculation in the guise of science was again recently featured in the pages of Environmental Health Perspectives, where Andrea Schwartz and Philip Landrigan (researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York) and Julia Taylor, Frederick vom Saal and others at the University of Missouri, published letters that expand on an earlier...

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