Personal care
Is there lead/heavy metals in tampons and pads?
This corpus does not contain a verified lead or other metal measurement for tampons or pads. No product is called safe or unsafe. The absence of a saved study is not a finding that the products are free of metals.
What is not available
No concentration for tampons or pads was verified. The Heavy Metal Index also has a pads page, which is not copied here.
Related evidence, where it exists, is on the linked pages. Those pages do not fill this gap.
Sources
Heavy Metal Index
Heavy Metal Index: menstrual tampons. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.
What's safe to buy
The Heavy Metal Tested and Certified public register listed no licensees on 15 October 2026. That page reported 0 certified brands and 0 certified products, and it stated that no brand has completed the three-lot baseline. A specimen layout on the register is an illustration, not a licensee. This page does not name or rank any brand.
The program states that certification is a measurement of a product against a published limit, not a statement that the product is safe. If a licensee is later listed for this category, it will be on the register.
This page summarizes cited documents. It does not diagnose or prescribe. Reviewed 15 October 2026.