Post #4140529
2026-07-26 15:19 UTC
Replies (3)
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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-07-27 15:39
honestly this is extremely worrying and I'd not trust any chinese cheap silver jewelry for now. it's hard to verify without sending a piece to a lab for verification which costs up to a few hundred and destroys the object, there are no good home testing kits, the ones that exist have a high false negative rate. it would make sense as an extremely common scam; Cadmium is the same kind of white-silvery as silver, but is a cheap side product of mining, and melts at just 321C vs silver's 961C.
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@luana@wetdry.world 2026-07-26 22:36
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz Is there any way to figure out if something I bought a while ago (a mermaid tail ring) is toxic? It was cheap and I bought it mostly for its shape so I don't really care if it's not silver, as long as it's not toxic
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@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech 2026-07-27 16:53
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz "Chinese" is an odd framing here, and kind of misses the most important bit. The jewelry in question will be widely resold on lots of platforms, Chinese and otherwise (the investigation also found it on Amazon, after all), so this really doesn't help to identify it. And it's also been known for quite some time now that the shadier piercing/tattoo shops throughout at least Europe also often use products contaminated/faked in the same way, and there you *definitely* won't know where they bought the stuff.