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A visit to the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) may have made life easier for many but a study has revealed that each time you use to the ...

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A visit to the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) may have made life easier for many but a study has revealed that each time you use to the facility, you are likely putting your health at risk. The receipts that one gets from these machines contain bisphenol A (BPA) that is likely to put at risk not only the user but also to the unborn children. 

According to the study, people who handled bank receipts, printed on thermal paper continuously for two hours, without gloves, have an increased urine BPA concentration level. The study also revealed that the substance can even have harmful effects on reproductive function in adults and brain development in children. The chemical can be absorbed into human skin in a less familiar way: by handling of receipts. BPA is often used as a color developer for the printing dye, used in thermal receipt paper, which is handled by many people daily. 

Beyond cash receipts, BPA is also used in baby foods bottles, the lining of canned food, cigarette filters, bus, train and lottery tickets. Doctor Shelley Ehrlich of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre in the United States, and her colleagues examined the effect of handling thermal receipts on urine BPA levels in the study according to a report in the Daily Mail. The study used 24 volunteers who provided urine samples before and after handling — with or without gloves — receipts printed on thermal paper for a continuous two hours.

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