Posted on 02/28/2024 1:48:13 PM PST by george76
A new study has discovered that tattoo inks could be linked to cancer or organ failure.
An analysis of 54 inks commonly used in tattoo parlors across America has uncovered that a staggering 45 of them contained unlisted additives, including chemicals known to pose alarming health risks.
Multiple inks contained 2-phenoxyethanol, which can cause toxic effects in high doses. Researchers involved in the study found the most common additive to be polyethylene glycol, which is a compound that can cause acute renal failure.
The study was led by Jonn Swierk from the Department of Chemistry at Binghamton University, and was published this month in the journal Analytical Chemistry.
Swierk said the conducted study was to open people’s eyes to the products being used in tattoo parlors.
“We’re hoping the manufacturers take this as an opportunity to reevaluate their processes, and that artists and clients take this as an opportunity to push for better labeling and manufacturing,” he said.
The study comes a year after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance to tattoo ink manufacturers and distributors to help recognize if tattoo ink may have been contaminated.
There were 18 recalls of tattoo inks between 2003 and 2023 that were contaminated with a variety of microorganisms.
However, tattoos are regulated as a cosmetic product in the U.S., which means ingredients do not have to be approved by the FDA before use.
Meanwhile, more than 100 million Americans have at least one tattoo, according to the Pew Research Center.
Future research will look at even smaller concentrations of substances found in tattoo ink, researchers said.
“Our goal in a lot of this research is to empower artists and their clients. Tattoo artists are serious professionals who have dedicated their lives to this craft and they want the best possible outcomes for their clients,” Swierk said. “We’re trying to highlight that there are some deficiencies in manufacturing and labeling.”
Nope, but she did have some trauma in college that we believe led to some emotional issues.
Like putting a bumper sticker on a Ferrari
From Mark 7:
After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? 19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
20 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
(In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
In other words, God was Himself dull when he gave the laws on clean and unclean foods. Or God was dull when he told Noah to take seven pairs of clean animals and one pair of unclean animals.
v. 15 “Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them.”
Jesus was talking about defilement, not food. Jesus said He did not come to destroy the law, the law here means the Old Testament.
” In other words, God was Himself dull when he gave the laws on clean and unclean foods. “
No, Jesus was given the authority to communicate changes to the law.
For example, Mathew 19:
3 Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?”
4 “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’[b]? 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
7 “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
“No, Jesus was given the authority to communicate changes to the law.”
Exactly what law here did Jesus change? Moses was the one who changed the law, to save the women, basically, not Jesus.
Tattoos have been around for thousands of years and are a big part of some cultures.
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Not in the USA. Which was the point.
They seem to be now.
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