There are certain words you don’t want associated with things you put inside of your body. “Toxic” is one, and “metals” is another. So when a 2024 study found that there are toxic metals in tampons, it was upsetting — especially because it wasn’t clear what that actually meant. Suddenly, in addition to age-old questions like “do tampons expire,” “how often should you change a tampon,” and “can you flush tampons,” tampon users everywhere started to wonder: are there chemicals in tampons? Are tampons safe?

In my humble opinion, these are questions that deserve accurate answers, so I enlisted the help of two experts: toxicologists Dr. Norbert Kaminski, Ph.D. and Dr. Joe Zagorski, Ph.D. from the Center for Research on Ingredient Safety at Michigan State University. From our conver

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