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		permo-w on Sept 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temp... according to this study, tartrazine can cause kidney and liver damage in rats https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5326541/ like an x-ray, I'd risk that for a one-off doctors appointment, but I'd probably not risk it on my body at all times. maybe there are safer dyes that have the same effect

JumpCrisscross on Sept 6, 2024 [–]

> maybe there are safer dyes that have the same effect

Given the effect is optical, perhaps encapsulation in benign, transparent beads? (Could be particularly effective is the goal is a tattoo.)

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