GETTING A TATTOO is an investment. They can be pricy, painful, and take time. It’s usually worth it in the end, though, unless your new ink gets infected. The likelihood of an infection is relatively ...

The contaminated tattoo inks can "cause infections and lead to serious health injuries," the FDA warned on Wednesday Certain types of tattoo inks have been recalled after the Food and Drug ...

ATLANTA - An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink. With the growing popularity of tattoos, health officials say they are seeing more cases of a nasty skin infection ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advises consumers, retailers, and tattoo artists to refrain from using or selling certain tattoo inks that are contaminated with microorganisms. It may be ...

Commercial tattoo and permanent makeup inks are too often contaminated with microbes that can lead to infection, warn investigators of a first-of-its-kind study testing the products. When US ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance to help manufacturers and distributors recognize situations that will prevent microbial contamination in tattoo inks. “With about ...

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration – which regulates tattoo ink – issued a warning for tattoo artists, the recently inked, and anyone considering a tattoo: Watch out for Mycobacterium ...

Tattoo artist table with several small cups and gun ink machine. Overhead shot Tattoos have transformed from counterculture to mainstream. What is the role of the clinician in protecting patients ...

If you’re going to have a person use a needle gun to continuously puncture your skin hundreds of thousands of times, injecting a foreign material into your body, you would hope that the tattoo artist ...

Health officials are needling tattoo artists and their customers to avoid six specific tattoo inks due to risk of bacterial infection. The Food and Drug Administration recalled inks from three ...