The California Department of Public Health used the 47-year-old's experience in a warning about the dangers of buying skin products imported from Mexico.
A Sacramento woman has been hospitalized in a semi-comatose state after using face cream purchased from a pharmacy in Jalisco, Mexico, that was tainted with methylmercury, county officials announced this week.
Sacramento County officials would not say more about her condition, citing patient protection laws, but theused the woman’s experience in a warning about the dangers of buying skin products imported from Mexico. Selling products with more than one microgram of mercury per liter is illegal in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.
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