In The 90's Toxic shock syndrome is still a concern for women who use tampons for menstrual protection. However, the Food and Drug Administration estimates that as many as 17 women per 100,000 contract the disease each year.
Many women believe that toxic shock syndrome is no longer associated with tampon use.
This is because the Food and Drug Administration acted in 1980 to remove Rely tampons from the marketplace. At that time, there was a great deal of publicity between the association that Rely tampons had with toxic shock syndrome. What most women did not realize was that all the other tampon brands then existing on the market, were also associated with toxic shock syndrome. Thus, while the removal of Rely from the market was certainly a step in the right direction, it gave American women the false impression that the products which remained on the market were safe for use. Virtually all of the brands and absorbencies of tampons which are in the marketplace today contain a manmade fiber called rayon.