The EcoWaste Coalition has detected mercury at over 30,000 parts per million (ppm) in a Pakistan-made facial cream that ...

New York City health officials are warning consumers about foreign skin care products containing mercury that are sold online and in stores. The health department warned about 22 skin-lightening ...

After applying a mercury-laced skin cream for months, a woman begins to experience alarming neurological symptoms. Doctors soon discover that the mercury in the cream caused severe brain poisoning, a ...

People of a certain age may remember Merthiolate and Mercurochrome in the household medicine chest. Whenever someone skinned a knee or scraped an elbow, one of these topical antiseptics was often ...

Gold-mining equipment operates in water near a river bank with trees in the background. Illegal gold mining along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado in the Amazon River basin of Peru.

A new investigation by the EIA US exposes key companies adding toxic mercury to skin lightening products and mercury compound supply sources serving them. Our undercover investigations reveal that ...

Texas health officials are warning consumers after finding mercury in some skin creams sold in Mexico. The alert comes after the state says a Texas woman spent 10 days in the hospital due to mercury ...