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BBC finds 8 of 25 silver jewellery items contain toxic cadmium.

Jewellery sold as sterling silver on popular online marketplaces contained illegal levels of a cancer-causing metal, a BBC Watchdog investigation has found. Laboratory tests carried out on 25 items bought from Amazon, eBay, Temu, Etsy and OnBuy found eight with excessive cadmium, and only two that qualified as genuine sterling silver. Most of the platforms said they had removed the listings flagged by the programme.

By BriefTea Editorial · 3 November 2026 at 6:04

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