Health Desk- 14 Dec,
2019: Imported skin whitening creams contain dangerous levels of mercury
content, with some brands having more than one lakh times higher mercury than
the national permissible limit, reveals in a report.
The Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO)
on behalf of the Zero Mercury Working Group (ZMWG), recently revealed a study report titled ‘Dangerous,
mercury-leaden and often illegal Skin Lightening Products: Readily Available
for Online Purchase’ in a press conference at ESDO office at Lalmatia in the
capital.
ESDO collected 16 samples of imported creams from online
shopping sites and local markets before sending those to Biodiversity Research
Institute’s laboratory of USA and Arnika Laboratory of Czech Republic in
September for chemical test reports.
The reports from the globally recognized labs were made
available last month.
The ZMWG is an international coalition of more than 110
public interest environmental and health non-governmental organizations from
over 55 countries from around the world formed in 2005 by the European
Environmental Bureau and the Mercury Policy Project.
“We can take action if anyone
imports any mercury-added product, which is beyond our permissible level. But
if people bring the products by illegal means, then how will we act? There is
no monitoring on online sales of products. We don’t know who is selling what,”
said BSTI Assistant Director SM Abu Sayed.
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