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Holding a store receipt for just 10 seconds lets your skin absorb enough BPS to violate safety standards.

Screenshot of the viral post we checked, claiming: Holding a store receipt for just 10 seconds lets your skin absorb enough BPS to violate safety standards.
The post as it circulated. Faces of private individuals are blurred.

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The Center for Environmental Health found some receipts had so much BPS that a 10-second touch exceeded California's Prop 65 warning level.

Studies show BPS can be absorbed through skin.

Prop 65 is a legal warning threshold. Experts say the real-world health risk is still unclear.

Sources

  1. ceh.org (opens in new tab)
  2. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (opens in new tab)
  3. preventcancer.org (opens in new tab)

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