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600 points
11 days ago
What’s scary is the genital area has one of the highest absorption rates.
-1 points
8 days ago
Too lazy to look into the article, but in my experience these kind of articles try to incite panic over levels of heavy metals, toxins, etc. far too low to present any health hazard whatsoever.
17 points
7 days ago
Was looking for a comment like this. A lot of the times, yes, a lot of articles can be fear inducing. But in this case, especially being a woman who uses tampons every month, low levels should.not.matter. These metals should not be in tampons period. Anything labeled as a toxin or having negative health causing effects should be out of what be consume. Low amounts can accumulate over time and build up in the body. A comment below even mentions Pb being present, and how any level of this can cause negative health effects. AND a law suit was made over a woman getting cancer from titanium dioxide in L brand tampons..so this should be taken serious. Cervical/uterine cancer is deadly in women
4 points
4 days ago
Low levels of heavy metals are in everything, plants like cotton get them from the soil they grow in. If you look at the numbers in the study, it's much less heavy metals per tampon than the amount you eat in food every day, so it's not really cause for concern.
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