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people get skin eruptions due to nickel-allergies when wearing jewellery
made of white-gold. Nickel-allergies develop from absorbing nickel into
your body constantly. But where does the nickel come from ?
Nickel is a very wide-spread component of stainless steel-alloys, very often used in daily life, i.e. cooking-utensils, cutlery..... Therefore white-gold
with a content of more than 0.5% nickel is forbidden in the European Community,
for jewellery like rings, studs, chains and other pieces of jewellery,
when directly in contact with the skin. For Studs, applied immediately after ear piercing
the alloys should not contain more than 0.05 % Nickel.
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