The US Food and Drug Administration will review the safety of tampons following a Columbia University study that detected heavy metals in several product lines, prompting lawmakers pressure on the agency.
Published in Environment International in July, the study used mass spectrometry to analyze tampons from 18 product lines for a range of metals including arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead. All of the tested tampons contained traces of at least some of the metals, though the specifics varied from product to product
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