Table 2.

Overview of recruited companies, range of the number of receipts handled by cashiers and BPA concentrations in receipts

Companies	Categories	Sample size		Range of receipts handled/day	% BPA (mg BPA/100 mg paper)
		Controls	Cashiers
1	Leisure parka	7	14	25–494	1.17
2	Ticket office	2	12	40–290	0.93
3	Garden centre	10	–	10–210b	–
4	Leisure parka	14	40	10–450	1.70
5	Restaurant	5	8	160–1,000	1.60
6	Restaurant	2	2	150–230	1.81
7	Hairdresser		1	10	1.75
8	Hairdresser		4	10–20	1.61
9	Hardware store	1	3	20–210	0.99
10	Bookshop	3	6	50–670	0.96
Total		44	90

^aThe leisure park consisted of restaurants, shops, hotels and ticket offices

^bThermal paper receipts with no BPA