L’article : Trier beware: Lab results reveal staph, mould on makeup testers

Le reportage : Makeup: The dirty truth about testers (Marketplace)

Producers went undercover at a dozen makeup stores in the Greater Toronto Area and swabbed 60 eyeshadow, mascara, lip gloss, cream blush and lipstick testers available to shoppers, and sent them to a microbiology lab for a closer look.

The lab found 40 per cent of the samples had Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, and 28 per cent were growing mould.