Sealed bottles of tattoo and permanent makeup ink, including some marked as sterile, contained millions of potentially dangerous bacteria, according to new research by the US Food and Drug ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about two types of tattoo inks being recalled due to contamination with “pathogenic microorganisms" ...

The researchers monitored the amount of tattoo ink used in each session by weighing the ink bottles before and after and examining the ink residue left behind on the dirty needles, cloths and gloves.

In addition to usual precautions, like using new needles on each tattoo and ensuring that the same gloves don’t touch ink bottles and tattoos, some places are taking additional precautions.

Tattoo ink is under recall for a possible health risk ... Products are packaged in plastic rounded bullet shape PET bottles with black dispense screw tops. There were distributed to all 50 states ...

“Some tattoo infections can result in permanent scarring.” The recalled Bloodline inks, sold nationwide via Amazon, are: Carolina Blue, 0.5-ounce bottles, batch No. 1, lot No ...

If tattoo ink did cause cancer, you’d expect people who had more of their body tattooed to be at greater risk. Crucially, the authors did not find this. Even if the data were more convincing ...

The front of the bottle says the logo “Sacred Tattoo Ink” on top of an illustrated human heart. What should consumers who are looking to get a tattoo, as well as tattoo artists, do?