In a KIRO 7 investigation, we tested more than 30 receipts from stores and restaurants across Snohomish, King, and Pierce counties.
We get them all the time and put them in our wallets or pockets. Cashiers tell us parents give them to their kids, and sometimes the kids even put them in their mouths!
We discovered there are chemicals in some of them that the Department of Ecology says can be hazardous to your health.This year, Washington banned these chemicals in receipts starting in 2026.“I’m horrified,” grocery worker Kyong Barry told us. “So I’m going to do my best to just educate my customers.
We’re also finding out from doctors the easy ways you can protect yourself and your kids from these chemicals.Texas woman charged with throwing boyfriend’s mother’s ashes into lake in 2020‘Acts of terrorism’ across Washington as 4 election offices get white powder in mail
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