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SINDOOR OR VERMILION MAY CAUSE TOXICITY ALTHOUGH OF RELIGIOUS VALUE IN HINDU WOMEN

Prof Dr,DRAM,HIV /AIDS,HEPATITIS ,SEX DISEASES & WEAKNESS expert,New Delhi,India, +917838059592

Indian cultures and traditions have used sindoor or vermilion – a red coloured powder – since time immemorial.Be it weddings, festivals or religious rituals – sindoor is always a part of occasions.Most married Hindu Women always use it in middle of their scalp in above fore head area daily to signify their marriaed status with a pray of longivity and good health of their husband.Ancient culture says it is mercury rich and reduce heat of brain by evaporting heat But is it safe in modern time ? A study conducted by researchers in the US have negated the safety of the product, saying that some manufacturers use lead tetroxide to give it a distinctive red color unlike in past it was made from plant resource only as organic color now.It is applied heavly on Lord Hanuman's Body too. Of the 118 sindoor samples tested in the study, 95 were from South Asian stores in New Jersey. Another 23 came from stores in Mumbai and New Delhi, in India. Overall, about 80 percent of the samples had at least some lead, and about a third contained levels above the limit set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We are diverse here with a lot of individuals who emigrate or travel from many parts of the world through airports on a weekly basis,” said study author Dr. Derek Shendell of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. “If there is a product that could be contaminated with lead, it’s of public health interest. There’s possibility of spread through ingestion or inhalation.” Shendell’s team found that 83 percent of the U.S. samples and 78 percent of the samples from India had at least 1 microgram of lead per gram of powder.The FDA’s limit for lead in cosmetics is 20 micrograms per gram. Nineteen percent of the US samples and 43 percent of the India samples exceeded that limit.

Posted on Tuesday, 29th August 2017