Tampon toxic-metals scare follows years of warnings about oversight gaps
“New research finding toxic metals such as lead and arsenic in tampons came as no surprise to Alexandra Scranton.
Scranton, the director of science and research at Women’s Voices for the Earth, a nonprofit environmental-health advocacy group, has spent years tracking research on chemicals in menstrual products and pushing for more testing of these products for potential contaminants. So when a study recently published in the journal Environment International found several toxic metals in various tampon brands, Scranton wasn’t…”
