• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    I know there are more important things to say about this receipt, but since everyone has already said them:

    Wow, look at that receipt. So simple. Actual ink on actual paper. No coupons on the back. And one line per item. No “price - savings = real price!” bullshit or anything else. I long for that kind of simplicity in even the little things in life.

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      Also no coating that delivers synthetic estrogen through your skin when you touch it. Which all the people worried about trans people choosing to transition never seem to have issue with…

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          No, the BPAs in it disrupt the endocrine system and lead to cardiovascular disease. I’ve also heard it’s carcinogenic. Really should not be described as anything like synthetic estrogen.

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            Even knowing about it, each time I look deeper into it, I realize it’s even worse than I had thought it was.

            Key takeaways from skimming that link:

            Agencies assume the oral route is the primary one of concern, but most BPA consumed orally ends up processed by the liver into a form that doesn’t bind to estrogen receptors. This is not the case for BPA absorbed through the skin.

            Safety assumptions for skin absorbed BPA assume best case scenarios. If any factors are less than ideal, actual absorption could be significantly higher than the numbers used to determine it’s “safe”.

            If you work in retail where you need to handle these regularly, you should wear gloves because those safety assumptions also seem to mainly consider the habits of customers who receive one with a purchase, not the people who need to rip one off for the customer and another for the business and then maybe handle ones to do paperwork when closing the till.

            Also it didn’t really go into the amount that might get airborne and inhaled due to handling those receipts.

            Hopefully it’s not a big deal, but that is currently more based on wishful thinking than any real scientific backing.