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Receipts Expose Retail Workers, Consumers To ‘Worrying’ Levels Of Cancer-Linked Chemicals: Study | CTV News

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 mdbincbi

Cashiers across Canada are being exposed to “worrying” levels of BPA and BPS — hormone disrupting industrial chemicals that have been linked to diabetes, obesity, ADHD and breast and prostate cancers — by simply handling thermal paper receipts, according to the results of a new experiment by Environmental Defence Canada. (CTV News) “These slips of paper are covertly exposing cashiers to worrying levels of hormone disrupting BPA and BPS every day,” Muhannad Malas, toxics program manager at EDC, said in the study. “But it doesn’t have to be this way.”…

Nearly Half Of Canadians To Develop Cancer In Their Lifetimes: Cancer Society | CTV News

June 20, 2017 mdbincbi

Nearly half of all Canadians are expected to be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime, according to new numbers from the Canadian Cancer Society. For men, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is 49 per cent; for women, it’s 45 per cent, according to the Canadian Cancer Statistics annual report for 2017. That’s a big jump from the 2016 report, which found that only two out of five Canadians could be expected to develop cancer in their lifetimes (45 per cent of men and 42 per cent…