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Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

‘A crisis’: The US tampon shortage, explained

The price of tampon packages in the US has gone up by nearly 10 percent in the year through May 28, Bloomberg reported this week [File: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters]

People who need menstrual products in the United States have raised alarm in recent months, after noticing fewer tampon packages on store shelves, or being told their preferred brand of tampons was suddenly unavailable.

The issue really came to the public’s attention when TIME Magazine published an article earlier this month titled, The Great Tampon Shortage of 2022: The Supply Chain Problem No One’s Talking About.

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