Dear Laura, I got an email letter from my daughter stating that tampon makers include asbestos in tampons.
Asbestos makes women bleed more.
She also wrote that the tampon industry is convinced that women need bleached white products in order to view tampons as pure and clean. Dioxin is produced in this bleaching process and can lead to very harmful problems for a woman. Ohio Dear Bob, Dioxin is suspected of causing cancer, damaging immune systems and causing birth defects. In 1992 a Congressional subcommittee reviewed Food and Drug Administration memos about dioxin in tampons. Legislators were concerned that exposure to any amount of dioxin may be harmful.