Low-Cost Jewelry Ranks HIGH for Toxic Chemicals


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Researchers tested low-cost children’s and adult jewelry for chemicals — including lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, bromine and chlorine (PVC) – which have been linked (in animal and some human studies) to acute allergies and to long-term health impacts such as birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, and cancer.

 

Over half (59%) of the products tested had a “high” level of…

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