In a new study, the Ecology Center Healthy Stuff Lab found that 80% of receipts tested positive for toxic bisphenols such as BPS. 

Nationwide news reports are helping to alert the public to the harmful chemicals coating the receipts most commonly handed out from retailers.

As a hormone-disrupting chemical, BPS is linked to fetal development issues, reproductive impairment, type 2 diabetes, thyroid conditions, and other health concerns. It can pass from the receipt through the skin and into the bloodstream. Exposure to BPS is particularly problematic for cashiers who handle receipts all day and for pregnant women who are at greater risk of adverse health outcomes from BPS exposure. 

While the practice of coating receipts with toxic BPS is a hazardous problem, it is also a solvable one. There are safer alternatives. Better yet, offering digital e-receipts saves paper waste and protects people from toxic bisphenols. And recently, Washington State became the first state in the nation to ban all bisphenols in receipt paper

As the largest grocery store chain in the U.S., Kroger has the power to get bisphenols out of their receipts. And the company has already made progress in eliminating bisphenol BPA in its private-label canned foods. They now need to take the next step to tackle bisphenols in receipt paper.

Along with our coalition partners, Toxic-Free Future and Green America, we are calling on Kroger grocery stores to offer the option of e-receipts and, simultaneously, to switch their BPS-coated receipt paper with safer alternatives. 

Through investigative reporting, news stations across the country resound that call. We are asking you to help us get toxic receipts out of circulation. 

Join us and take action today!