Human Toxicity Excerpts:
/SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS/ Cadmium sulfide is sometimes used as a yellow tattoo pigment, which is deposited intradermally. Local phototoxic reactions may take place when the skin is exposed to ultraviolet light and are probably connected with the marked photoconducting properties of cadmium sulfide. Of 24 patients with yellow tattoos ... 18 experienced skin swelling when exposed to sunlight.