The congratulatory calls and emails were pouring in, and Kathrin Schilling was trying her best to keep up with them all. A new study for which Schilling was the senior author disclosed the presence of such harmful metals as lead and arsenic in tampons. Schilling’s work achieved the kind of mainstream attention of which researchers … Continue reading After a Study Found Lead in Tampons, Environmentalists Wonder if Global Metal Pollution Is Worse Than They Previously Thought