Bethany Black (@[email protected])
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After all these years I’m rarely surprised by medical misogyny, but finding out that the research from the first ever tests on period products using blood instead of water were published LAST WEEK is one of those surprises.

Archive link to story here: https://archive.ph/HVNLH

Posted here because there is no community for Absolutely Infuriating (that I know of).

  • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
    23·
    1 year ago

    My take is blood is a biohazard unless it’s quality is regulated, and therefore it’s a biohazard unless it’s expensive. I’ll go read the article in a bit maybe I’m wrong.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.deEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      It is a biohazard, but that’s not a good reason not to use it, just use appropriate ppe and disposal