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And the thing is it's not necessary at all. It's just to make the paper easier to handle and to pad profits of the chemical/plastic industry.
What's even worse is during the height of covid (when it was acknowledged anyways) when people were using tons of hand sanitizer, alcohol aids absorption and transfer of that stuff into the body so if you worked retail and were sanitizing your hands with that stuff after touching a receipt you were upping your exposure.
It's like how many budget Chinese made electronics have lead in the power cables that you can get on your hands when plugging them in. Why? Because it saves a few pennies over the non-lead process for making them and the foreign capitalists demand the Chinese cheap out on that (max profit) and we have no regulations against it (Europe at least has RoHS which means they use the slightly more expensive modern process for rubberized coatings without lead exposure). China has production capacity of non-lead PVC, many products made in China use it, but many don't including probably that extension cable or power strip you bought which you'll use and touch potentially hundreds of times throughout its life.
There's something deeply funny about the west importing toxic goods when we would mine n produce things like asbestos to sell to other countries while they were banned at home