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Toy recalled - health risk

The toy Miniverse - Make it mini contains substances that can pose a health risk and must stop being sold and recalled from stores, writes the Chemicals Agency in a press release. Miniverse - Make it mini contains a liquid that is to be hardened with the help of UV light.

Toy recalled - health risk

How much PFAS is in our drinking water

Eternal chemicals PFAS are discovered in almost all drinking water. In at least three municipalities, the levels exceed the limit values for four specifically designated substances.

How much PFAS is in our drinking water

Hidden Environmental Villain: 30 Million Pairs of New Shoes

We buy a lot of shoes – a total of more than 30 million pairs per year. But only a small part of them is reused.

Hidden Environmental Villain: 30 Million Pairs of New Shoes

Water is threatened: Toxins leak through purification

Around the world, thousands of biofilter facilities have been built in cities to purify stormwater. Now, Swedish researchers see a risk that the technology is failing, and that toxic PFAS can flow right through.

Water is threatened: Toxins leak through purification

Bianca Ingrosso's Company Fined for Toxic Makeup

Bianca Ingrosso's company Beauty Icons AB, the company behind Caia Cosmetics, is fined 25,000 kronor after releasing an environmentally hazardous makeup pen, reports [Expressen](https://www. expressen.

Bianca Ingrosso's Company Fined for Toxic Makeup

Banned chemicals in thousands of imported goods

Thousands of products with banned chemicals on their way into the country have been stopped – electronics, jewelry, and pesticides. The Chemicals Agency is urging consumers to avoid buying goods from marketplaces where the seller is located outside the EU.

Banned chemicals in thousands of imported goods

The Invention That Will Remove PFAS

For years, Cheng Zhang and his research colleagues have tried to create a filter that removes environmental toxins PFAS from water. Now the technology is to be tested sharply at a large water treatment plant.

The Invention That Will Remove PFAS

New alarms about toxic products on shopping sites

They have grown strongly in recent years worldwide and also gained ground in Sweden. Now new alarms are raised about toxic substances in products from the Chinese shopping sites Temu and Shein.

New alarms about toxic products on shopping sites

Lead and Arsenic Found in Ordinary Tampons

Arsenic, lead, and cadmium. These are substances found in several popular tampon brands.

Lead and Arsenic Found in Ordinary Tampons

Hazardous Mosquito Patches Sold in Sweden

Patches that are supposed to keep mosquitoes away are being sold in Sweden - despite being illegal and hazardous to health. The effect of mosquito patches is also being questioned by experts.

Hazardous Mosquito Patches Sold in Sweden

More companies reported for poison in makeup

The Chemicals Agency has reported four additional Swedish companies suspected of selling cosmetics containing hazardous substances, reports [P3 News](https://sverigesradio. se/artikel/fler-foretag-anmals-for-gift-i-smink-extremt-oroande).

More companies reported for poison in makeup

Industry allowed to release banned chemical

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Industry allowed to release banned chemical

Another Caia cosmetics product contained toxic substances

Furthermore, one of entrepreneur Bianca Ingrosso's cosmetics company Caia Cosmetics' products has been sold with toxic PFAS substances. .

Another Caia cosmetics product contained toxic substances

"Food Fraud Unit" proposed to stop food scams

Fraud in the food industry – such as horse meat in kebabs and diluted olive oil – must be punishable by harsher penalties, writes the government's special investigator Eva-Lotta Hedin on Dagens Nyheter's debate page. .

"Food Fraud Unit" proposed to stop food scams

Bianca Ingrosso's company reported - toxic makeup in the product

The influencer and entrepreneur Bianca Ingrosso's cosmetics company Caia Cosmetics has been reported to the police for toxic makeup. The report comes from the Chemicals Agency, writes DI.

Bianca Ingrosso's company reported - toxic makeup in the product