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, 2019
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Amazon, eBay among websites found selling illegal mercury-laced skin lighteners

Source: eeb.org, Date: , 2019

Skin lightening creams containing mercury – a heavy metal and dangerous neurotoxin – are still widely available to purchase in shops and online, despite being banned by governments. That’s the finding of new research by a global alliance of NGOs working to eliminate mercury pollution.

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