{"id":822508,"date":"2026-11-03T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822508\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:28:09","slug":"jewellery-sold-as-sterling-silver-on-amazon-and-temu-found-to-contain-toxic-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/822508\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewellery sold as sterling silver on Amazon and Temu found to contain toxic chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cadmium is a carcinogen associated particularly with lung cancer, says Rob Chilcott, a retired professor of toxicology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It poses a risk to humans if it is inhaled or ingested. For example, an earring falling into food that you then eat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you put something containing cadmium in your mouth, or indeed if you swallow it, that is really bad news,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the eight items found to have breached cadmium limits: three were purchased from Amazon, three from Temu and one from each of OnBuy and Etsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cadmium is a carcinogen associated particularly with lung cancer, says Rob Chilcott, a retired professor of toxicology. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-822508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}