More Than A Third Of Tattoo Inks Contaminated With Bacteria, Study Finds

HealthDay (7/2, Miller) reports, “Getting inked could make you sick. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers detected bacteria in commercial tattoo and permanent makeup inks, demonstrating that they could cause human infections.” The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found “about 35% of tattoo or permanent makeup inks sold in the United States were contaminated with bacteria.”