poisoning Tag

Director Phyllis Ellis and researcher Sarah Jay give us the lowdown on the documentary and the increasingly deadly, yet unregulated, issue “The doctor put in a needle all through the skin under my abdomen (and a) greenish liquid poured out of me into six one-litre bottles,” says Shaeda Farooqi. “What did I do mistaken?” voices one other woman. Each women are speaking about their experiences affected by symptoms of ovarian cancer – an epidemic that’s been increasingly linked to the usage of talc, an ingredient present in talcum powder (think Johnson & Johnson’s famous baby powder) and other beauty products.  These stories are two of many shared in a latest documentary called Toxic Beauty,...