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Scientists explore chemistry of tattoo inks amid growing safety concerns

“Every time we looked at one of the inks, we found something that gave me pause.”

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AstonJ

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I love tattoos but this is one of the reasons I won’t get one.

One of my neighbours was diagnosed with terminal cancer and she said when they biopsied her lymph nodes they found tattoo ink in them. She said she regretted having hers (even though she didn’t have many)…

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