{"id":46982,"date":"2026-02-18T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/illegal-skin-lightening-cream-being-sold-in-butchers-across-uk-watchdog-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:59:07","slug":"illegal-skin-lightening-cream-being-sold-in-butchers-across-uk-watchdog-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/illegal-skin-lightening-cream-being-sold-in-butchers-across-uk-watchdog-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal skin lightening cream being sold in butchers across UK, watchdog warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;As a black woman and a long-standing advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion, I want to be absolutely clear: the sale of illegal skin lightening products is not only dangerous, it is unlawful,&#8221; Tendy Lindsay, a CTSI member and former chair, said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3rzn1pxr3qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As a black woman and a long-standing advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion, I want to be absolutely clear: the sale of illegal skin lightening products is not only dangerous, it is unlawful,&#8221; Tendy Lindsay, a CTSI member and former chair, said. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[13793,5419,2088,13792,6238,3683,346,2618],"class_list":["post-46982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","tag-butchers","tag-cream","tag-illegal","tag-lightening","tag-skin","tag-sold","tag-warns","tag-watchdog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46984,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46982\/revisions\/46984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}