Senior Agents of Change fellow Michelle Gin speaks with Michael Xiong of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency about the dangers of skin lightening products that contain mercury. Today we're gonna be talking about skin lightening products, specifically mercury in skin lightening products. Michelle GinTell me about the communities that are most impacted by mercury in skin lightening products. And one of the biggest sellers of skin lightening products that is found in Minnesota is from Hmong pending shops. And it's important to note like the difference of inorganic mercury, found in skin lightening products and organic mercury found in fish.

Source: Washington Post October 05, 2022 21:02 UTC