November 27, 2019
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Amazon, eBay among websites found selling illegal mercury-laced skin lighteners

European Union

Consumer products Reputational Risk Cosmetics Hazardous substances

Testing throughout 2019 revealed 95 of the 158 products purchased in the 12 sampling countries exceeded the legal limit of 1 ppm (part per million), with mercury levels ranging from 40 ppm to over 130,000 ppm.

More than two-thirds (65 of the 95) of those were bought online from such internet marketers as Amazon , eBay, BidorBuy, Lazada, Daraz, Flipkart and Jumia [see table below] .

Elena Lymberidi-Settimo Project Manager at the European Environmental Bureau and International Co-coordinator of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG) said:

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