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Many popular tampon brands contain arsenic and lead: report (www.salon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

but the scientists have not revealed which brands they tested, or which ones yielded the troubling results. [...] Concentrations of the metals varied by country of purchase, whether a product was store-brand or name-brand, and whether the product was labelled organic or non-organic. Non-organic tampons contained higher concentrations of arsenic and lower levels of lead, while organic tampons had more lead and less arsenic.