YSK jewellery sold as sterling silver on amazon has been found to be made from cadmium, a carcinogen
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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.
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Stop buying from Amazon. They're barely only a step above Temu
Don't buy things from Amazon. They'd rather kill their customers than miss a dollar.
Perhaps that is the point. It's a bit dark and a bit paranoid, but once AI can manufacture the basics, 90% of us aren't "needed" anymore. Maybe that's why they don't care about climate change or the cost of living. The age of AI utopia they envision is meant only for those of a certain social standing so if the herd gets thinned they won't have to figure out what to do with us later.
That's a lot of doomerism, but god damn, poisoning your customers with poisonous jewelry used to be the domain of wicked magicians and fantasy novels, now it's happening on an industrial scale.
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
Containing cadmium is bad enough. But "made off" is a new level of evil.
Buying on Amazon is basically the same as buying from a sketchy street-corner seller, except without the benefit to the local economy.
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+
I assume everything made of silver isnt actually silver.
Frightening
If you think you're getting a sterling silver ring for three quid then there's something wrong with you
Cadmium poisoning affecting their brain from all their other £3 jewelry
Isn't cadmium flammable? That might be a quick test. Just don't breath the fumes or come in contact with the fumes.
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?
Buys ring
Sets it on fire
?????
Success.
Now we know where to get cadmium from.
You're a few chemical reactions away from manufacturing your own solar panels!
Or rechargeable batteries.
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!