Permanent Risk: The Tattoo Ink Crisis

Name: Permanent Risk: The Tattoo Ink Crisis
Uploaded: 2026
Duration: 19 min
Description: Report by Wilfred Rebetez and Emmanuelle Bressan, produced by RTS Radio Télévision Can tattoo ink damage the immune system and cause cancer? Tattoo inks pose a real health risk. That's the bottom line of a Swiss study conducted at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona over seven years — RTS investigates. More than a billion people are estimated to be tattooed worldwide.

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Report by Wilfred Rebetez and Emmanuelle Bressan, produced by RTS Radio Télévision Can tattoo ink damage the immune system and cause cancer? Tattoo inks pose a real health risk. That's the bottom line of a Swiss study conducted at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona over seven years — RTS investigates. More than a billion people are estimated to be tattooed worldwide.

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