Stop buying from Amazon. They're barely only a step above Temu

Jayne Bond, a consultant in the jewellery industry, ordered a £2.99 ring on Amazon marked “925 silver”, sold by a brand called The Construction People. Independent testing of the ring showed that it was made up of approximately 92.3 per cent cadmium.

Bond claimed Amazon was notified of this on May 12 but the item remained on sale. Bond re-purchased the item weeks later on July 1 with similar results in its cadmium content. One reviewer on the site said the ring gave them a “severe allergic reaction” that needed medical treatment. The ring has now been removed from Amazon’s UK site.

An online customer review for a ring, stating it was falsely advertised as sterling silver and caused an allergic reaction. “If people are reporting the problems, why are [Amazon] not looking at their own reviews that these things are damaging people? It’s neglect,” Bond said.

Don't buy things from Amazon. They'd rather kill their customers than miss a dollar.

Good job on purifying it to those levels

But fuck me that is some toxic shit and where I live we have a high background level because of prolonged dairy farming and the use of superphosphate

Containing cadmium is bad enough. But "made off" is a new level of evil.

Buying on Amazon is basically the same as buying from a sketchy street-corner seller, except without the benefit to the local economy.

Amazon and Etsy don't check what people are selling. There are people selling resin poured into a mold and colored to look like super rare crystals for anywhere from $50 to $10k+

I assume everything made of silver isnt actually silver.

If you think you're getting a sterling silver ring for three quid then there's something wrong with you

Frightening

Isn't cadmium flammable? That might be a quick test. Just don't breath the fumes or come in contact with the fumes.

I'm sorry, what? Living in Denmark makes it very easy to not use Amazon, and I haven't used them in a decade, but this? Holy shit, that's bad. The future is looking bleaker and bleaker. I'm glad I don't have children!

Now we know where to get cadmium from.