The period products industry has long exhibited a lack of transparency and an apparent absence of precautionary principles in design and material selection.
The researchers from the University of California at Berkeley found 16 metals, among them lead and arsenic, in 30 tampons from 14 brands sold across the U.S. and Europe.
Over the years, the industry has seen numerous scandals, exposés, and alarming findings, including life-and-death outcomes from Toxic Shock Syndrome.
I first became deeply concerned about menstrual products in the early 1980s, when I witnessed pollution from a nearby factory processing pulp for period care products.
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