Skin Lightening Cream Contains Hidden Risks
Spring 2012
A new case study co-authored by COEH members Mark Miller and Gina Solomon, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has linked a skin-lightening cream manufactured in Mexico to mercury contamination cases affecting five households in California and Virginia. In total, fifteen out of twenty-two household members showed evidence of mercury poisoning, including six with no history of using the cream.
