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I would avoid massively increasing your exposure to receipts. They have endocrine disrupting chemicals and it's advised to not even handle them from retail stores let alone in higher quantities in your own home.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/receipt-paper-harmful/



Since the article was written, bisphenol has been banned in Europe.


You can buy phenol-free thermal paper.


If the grocery store cashiers aren't getting cancer from handling 150 receipts a day then the todo list should be fine.


They are getting cancer. That's the problem, cancer rates overall are higher and we're working through figuring out why so we can stop it. This may be one of the reasons.




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