The EU Commission is considering a restriction of bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper. Thermal paper is used in many electronic products that require simple printing capability such as point-of-sale terminals, label printers, lottery ticket printers and fax machines. BPA is the most common dye developer used in thermal paper. The restriction is proposed for a concentrations equal or higher than 0.02% by weight.<\/p>\n
Alternatives to the use of BPA in thermal paper were also the subject of a U.S. EPA DfE program a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n
The EU restriction proposal was original submitted by France. As the next step in the consideration process, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has launched a public consultation that runs from June 18, 2014 to December 18, 2014. Comments may be provided through the ECHA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The EU Commission is considering a restriction of bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal paper. Thermal paper is used in many electronic products that require simple printing capability such as point-of-sale terminals, label printers, lottery ticket printers and fax machines. BPA is the most common dye developer used in thermal paper. The restriction is proposed for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14,16,3],"tags":[44,43],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-newsletter","category-nl2014q4","category-regulations","tag-bpa","tag-us-epa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}