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Holiday Shoppers Beware: Toxin From Receipts May Lurk in Cash

(Dec. 8) -- Here's a new worry to add to your holiday shopping list: A toxic chemical may be lurking in your wallet. A study released today by the Washington Toxics Coalition found large amounts of Bisphenol A, a chemical that disrupts hormones and has been linked to cancer, on thermal paper receipts and dollar bills...

Household Toxics Reach Babies Even in Womb

(Nov. 17) -- It is one of the worst nightmares for a mother-to-be: She's poisoning the baby in her belly, and there is little she can do about it. Now new research out Tuesday has put hard numbers to those fears, showing that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women's bodies, and that their children enter the...

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05/03/12 Study: Many gardening products have high levels of... Source: ABC - KOMO 4 - Seattle WA Researchers at the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Ecology Center tested nearly 200 garden essentials -- gloves, knee pads, hand tools, and hoses -- for heavy metals and chemicals known to pose a health risk.
01/27/12 Flame Retardants Refuse To Burn Out Source: Web MD Blogs Think the flame retardant Tris is a thing of the past?
01/19/12 Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Source: The Huffington Post Think the flame retardant Tris is a thing of the past?
03/21/11 Can Toxic BPA on Your Receipts Make You Sick? Source: FOX News A recent study from the Washington Toxics Coalition found that more than half of the thermal paper receipts in the U.S. contain large amounts of unbound BPA, and 95 percent of the dollar bills tested positive for lower amounts.
12/08/10 Controverislal chemical found on money, receipts Source: NW Cable News According to a Seattle research group, there are probably traces of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA).