[HN Gopher] Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird a...
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Tattoo ink sold on Amazon has high levels of weird and rare
bacteria
Author : pseudolus
Score : 36 points
Date : 2024-08-27 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| riiii wrote:
| I'm sure the horrified Amazon staff will deal with the problem
| swiftly by removing the listing from their website.
| latchkey wrote:
| https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety...
| pseudolus wrote:
| This has the potential for an amazing superhero origin story.
| aynyc wrote:
| At this point, are there any educated consumers still use Amazon
| for critical things unless there is no alternative?
|
| My dad is as cheap as they get, even he doesn't buy that stuff
| from Amazon.
| browningstreet wrote:
| I buy a lot off Amazon and have never received a bad or bunk
| product, not even once.
| UniverseHacker wrote:
| I'll bet you just didn't notice. A huge fraction of the name
| brand items I've bought on there were usable, but fake or
| knockoffs. You'd have to already own or be experienced with
| the real one to know. For example, I bought an electric
| shaver replacement blade on there. After 3 months it was dull
| and the paint flaked off. The real ones are not painted so
| don't flake and last 6 months but I had to already know these
| facts to tell.
| Loughla wrote:
| I mean, I've never gotten any knock off items from Amazon
| that I'm aware of either. But I'm certainly not buying
| something that goes into my actual body from there.
| tobyhinloopen wrote:
| I only buy books because local stores don't sell the books I
| need or want
| notorandit wrote:
| One more reason to stop tattooing.
| onepointsixC wrote:
| How Amazon has face no repercussions for so many overtly fake
| products on their store completely baffles me.
| cut3 wrote:
| Probably something to do with sellers doing it through the
| platform, and I imagine AMAZON responds to the right amount of
| complaints legally required, though these are guesses.
|
| I also imagine its a complex and fun problem to try and solve.
| Ive noticed they have started in some ways, for example some
| brands are now labeled as "premium brand sourced" which means
| less likely to be fake.
| giantg2 wrote:
| Probably the platform vs actor thing. Like hate speech on a
| platform that has some rudimentary reporting vs the person who
| actually wrote it. Most of the blame falls on the actor instead
| of the platform.
| notadoc wrote:
| A close friend of mine is dealing with a variety of health issues
| due to heavy metal poisoning from their tattoos.
|
| Personally, I have never seen a case where tattoos improved
| someone's health, or appearance for that matter.
| echelon wrote:
| > Personally, I have never seen a case where tattoos improved
| someone's health, or appearance for that matter.
|
| This is subjective. "Health" here might be taken to include
| mental health, in which case there.
|
| That said, there are some objectively bad health outcomes that
| _can_ come from getting tattoos [1, 2]. Not that they
| necessarily will.
|
| [1] infections, autoimmune response, etc:
| https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocd.14498
|
| [2] lymphoma:
| https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/tattoos-may-increa...
| wongarsu wrote:
| Tattoos are certainly something where you have to be extra
| careful because of the potential health effects of bad needles
| or bad ink. And it's difficult to vet these things.
|
| Aesthetically it's a matter of taste, but I've certainly seen
| tattoos where I thought they improved the person's appearance.
| Though Sturgeon's law does apply.
| withinrafael wrote:
| Confusingly, it appears the inks in question were knockoffs? The
| official manufacturer seems to be alive and well? Or maybe vice
| versa, hard to tell with Amazon these days.
|
| e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bloodline-Tattoo-Selling-Colors-
| Stabl...
| koollman wrote:
| people use weird and rare bacteria bottles sold on amazon as
| tatoo ink
| citruscomputing wrote:
| It's a real shame tattoo ink isn't regulated in the US, at all.
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