What’s in your pad? Study sparks debate over chemical exposure in hygiene products – The Mail & Guardian

What’s in your pad? Study sparks debate over chemical exposure in hygiene products – The Mail & Guardian

A woman in South Africa might use thousands of sanitary pads and pantyliners over her lifetime, yet new research has warned that the products could expose her to hormone-disrupting chemicals.  The groundbreaking research by the University of the Free State (UFS), published last week in Science of the Total Environment, revealed that pads and pantyliners sold on the local market contained endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) such as phthalates, …