Jan 25 2011
Excellent Packaging & Supply, an innovator and distributor of nature-based packaging for foodservice and other applications, has added a range of BPA-free paper supplies for cash registers and credit-card receipt printers to its comprehensive BioMass Packaging® online store and catalog.
The BPA-free paper works exactly like the paper it replaces, and enables retailers to eliminate toxins from the receipts they hand to their customers. Available for the first time, BPA-free thermal paper for POS machines can be ordered direct from biomasspackagingstore.com, for immediate delivery.
Excellent Packaging & Supply Introduces BPA-Free Cash-Register/POS Paper
“We first learned about the demand for BPA-free thermal paper when a customer asked us if we knew that thermal paper contained BPA and wanted to know if we could provide them with safer, non-toxic replacement. It was the right thing to do and the solution was out there. We simply had to find it,” said Allen King, president of Excellent Packaging & Supply.
According to Marcelo Mino of The Natural Grocery Company, public awareness about BPA and its associated dangers has been rising, prompting him to avoid using it as much as possible: “Our customers and employees started voicing their concerns about BPA, years ago. We learned that our thermal paper contained BPA, and have since then been looking for an alternative. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Excellent Packaging started shipping BPA-free paper to us in December, swapping out our old supplies for this new product.”
Bisphenol A (BPA) is commonly found in thermal printer paper, and has been identified as a toxic substance by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Health Canada. A recent study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has shown that there is some concern about BPA-s effects on fetal and infant brain development and behavior. Another study published in the journal Thyroid concluded that BPA could have selective effects on the functioning of the thyroid gland.
In addition to BPA-free thermal-paper rolls, which are made by Ritemade Paper, using Koehler-manufactured BPA-free paper, Excellent Packaging offers a comprehensive range of sustainable foodservice disposables. Its BioMass Packaging® line of products includes more than 450 items, all of which are BPA-free, and most of which are made from renewable, bio-based resources.