Link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/jewellery-carcinogen-amazon-tiktok-zrl6tcmxf

Paywall free link: https://archive.ph/6YIDb

Sellers on Amazon and TikTok Shop have sold jewellery containing illegal amounts of a cancer-causing metal, an investigation by The Sunday Times has found.
Items have been sold on the marketplaces containing large amounts of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal that is carcinogenic. The legal limit for this element in the UK is 0.01 per cent in any piece of jewellery.
One £2.99 ring bought on Amazon that was advertised as 925 silver contained more than 9,000 times the maximum allowance and was estimated to be made of 92.3 per cent cadmium.

Good job on purifying it to those levels

But fuck me that is some toxic shit and where I live we have a high background level because of prolonged dairy farming and the use of superphosphate

Frightening

Isn't cadmium flammable? That might be a quick test. Just don't breath the fumes or come in contact with the fumes.

I assume everything made of silver isnt actually silver.

A very cursory websearch seems to say it's generally only flammable when in powdered form

How the hell am I supposed to crush up this bracelet

You got teeth, don't ya?

Now we know where to get cadmium from.

Stop buying from Amazon. They're barely only a step above Temu

Amazon and Etsy don't check what people are selling. There are people selling resin poured into a mold and colored to look like super rare crystals for anywhere from $50 to $10k+

Containing cadmium is bad enough. But "made off" is a new level of evil.

You're a few chemical reactions away from manufacturing your own solar panels!

Buying on Amazon is basically the same as buying from a sketchy street-corner seller, except without the benefit to the local economy.

Buys ring

Sets it on fire

?????

Success.

I'm sorry, what? Living in Denmark makes it very easy to not use Amazon, and I haven't used them in a decade, but this? Holy shit, that's bad. The future is looking bleaker and bleaker. I'm glad I don't have children!

If you think you're getting a sterling silver ring for three quid then there's something wrong with you

Or rechargeable batteries.

Cadmium poisoning affecting their brain from all their other £3 jewelry