Discovering of Asbestos Fibers and Corn Starch in Talc Material for Baby Powder Samples from Different Markets in Benghazi City |Biomedgrid

This work gives mastery over the asbestos fibers that found their way to talc material in baby powder. There are two kinds of baby powder made up of 1. Baby powder is based on talc material with components. 2. Baby powder is based on corn starch with talcum. New research pointing to the connection of asbestos molecules and several types of cancers. Asbestos is naturally appearance, and it was used as thermal insulating material in factories and has been illicited for its risks on the workingman. The most widely used method to detect asbestos fibers is microscopes and the SEM it was used in this study to detect asbestos fibers in different products from local markets further more iodine test to discover if the product have a starch. In this work sex of twelve samples of baby powder may contain asbestos fibers, and two contain starch.