Are There Heavy Metals in Our Tampons, and Is That...OK?

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Back in 2024, there were a ton of headlines about heavy metals being found in tampons. So...what happened with that? ARE there heavy metals in our tampons? And is that...bad for us? Where'd we land with that? I take you on a ride down a research rabbit hole about the 2024 UC Berkeley study that kicked this all off, the FDA's follow-up study, and the computational model that gives us as much of an answer as we're going to get.

UC Berkeley study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024004355

FDA study: https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/209/6/kfag065/8698879?login=false

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