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As if dealing with your menstrual cycle wasn’t bad enough, there’s a new study that may leave women horrified and even reconsider using this menstrual product. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley examined 30 tampons from 14 different brands and found 16 types of toxic metals, which could put women at greater risk of potentially fatal health conditions. Here’s what we know so far and should women be concerned? What does the study reveal? Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley analysed 30 tampons from 14 tampon brands obtained in the US, Greece and England and published their findings in Environmental International .

The research revealed that the tampons contained “several toxic metals,” including lead and arsenic. The metals found in the tampons — including organic and non-organic ones — are arsenic, barium., calcium, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, mercury, nickel, lead, selenium, strontium, vanadium and zinc.



“Some tampons had higher concentrations of one metal, lower concentrations of another,” Jenni A Shearston, PhD, the lead author on the paper, told TODAY.com . “There wasn’t a specific tampon that we tested that seemed to have.

.. a lower concentration of all the metals.

” The authors of the research noted that it is not clear whether the metal levels found in the tampons would contribute any negative health effects to users but called for more research to be done. “Despite this large potenti.

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