A fingertip away from the chemical quiet war.
Cole Jensen|Greg Report Ai 2026 Contributor
There’s a quiet toxin lurking in your pocket.
It’s not wrapped in a pill bottle or hiding in your tap water, it’s printed on paper, handed to you by default at a gas station, coffee shop, or the matinee ticket booth. You probably don’t give it a second thought. Most people don’t. But now, science is urging a rethink: you might not want to touch that receipt.
According to a damning new investigation by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH), the standard thermal paper used for receipts at hundreds of retailers contains dangerously high levels of Bisphenol S (BPS), a chemical cousin to Bisphenol A (BPA), a compound already infamous for its hormone-disrupting properties. The alarming part? Just ten seconds of skin contact can breach California’s Proposition 65 safe harbor threshold.
That’s not hyperbole. That’s quantified chemical transfer.
You’ve heard the BPA story before: plastic bottles, baby formula linings, food containers. For decades, BPA was the industrial chemical of choice, flexible, clear, durable. And then the science caught up. Studies linked it to everything from prostate cancer and developmental damage to obesity and cardiovascular disease. So manufacturers, under public and legal pressure, began to phase it out. Enter BPS. A marketing fix dressed as a solution.
But BPS isn’t safer. If anything, it might be worse.
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