Amazon pulled a $4 ‘sterling silver’ ring that was 92% cancer-causing cadmium. A jewelry expert warns it’s back
Source: Fortune ·
A ring matching one that tested at more than 9,000 times the U.K.’s legal cadmium limit has resurfaced on Amazon under a new seller. A similar “sterling silver” design sells in the U.S. for $4.99, about what the silver alone in a genuine ring would be worth.
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A British jewelry consultant is calling out Amazon—again. “This is an utter joke,” Jayne Bond wrote in a Sept. 16 LinkedIn post, criticizing U.K. enforcement authorities after discovering that a ring with the same design as one previously exposed for containing dangerously high levels of cadmium was back on Amazon—this time offered by a different seller. The £3.39 ring was advertised as “925 Sterling Silver,” which means it should contain 92.5% silver. But Bond said preliminary testing of the ring she purchased detected cadmium, a toxic metal known to cause cancer. Amazon told Fortune that the ring Bond identified in September has since been removed from its marketplace. A ring that was 92% cadmium Bond’s discovery came two months after The Sunday Times published an investigation into jewelry sold through Amazon and TikTok Shop in the U.K. Bond, who had spent months raising concerns with Amazon before alerting the newspaper, helped bring the issue to light. The investigation found…