What inventions didn’t make the cut
over the years? Interview.
Comments (ww) by Wes Wood 01/05/2025

Dr. Anderson: "I am an incurable optimist, but not everything we try works. We tried to make removable tattoos 15 years ago."

(ww) The ink, named "INFINITE INK" was offered by Unimax for decades: only one bottle sold. This says a lot: it failed because tattooists didn't want it: in my opinion. (ww)

Dr. Anderson: "There are hundreds of different inks,"

(ww) To our knowledge only a few dozen pigments are used by all producers of tattoo ink, not hundreds. Newer ink companies don't just make new inks, but copy what is already successfully used by others. (That's a very good thing.) They are Pirates. That is why the specific contents were carefully guarded secrets and not listed on the label. Prior to the 90s, most tattooists were getting pigment powders from a select few places and mixed their own inks. As an aside Unimax was threatened by a tattooist with bodily harm if he did not reveal what specific pigments were used. So Dr. Anderson is off the mark already. He doesn't know the inner workings of tattoo ink history. (ww)

Dr. Anderson: "and the chemical composition of inks is not controlled by the FDA."

(ww) As far back as 2001 Dr. Anderson has been lobbying the FDA to remove inks from the market that cannot be easily removed by his lasers. (ww)

Dr. Anderson: People with no medical training are tattooing millions with potentially allergic or carcinogenic ink and bad art.

(ww) First: This is known as "Incipient propaganda" because it assumes the listener agrees without questioning that tattooists must have medical training to tattoo. Second: Adding the "Millions" exaggerates the situation out of all proportion.  Third: Pigments in use are non-allergenic, and not  "carcinogenic." He probably heard this from Dermatology professors who teach these ridiculous charges, who know nothing about pigments and what is actually in tattoo ink.(ww)

Dr. Anderson:  There is a lot of tattoo regret,

(ww) But more satisfaction, millions more. Some regret tattoos but thy knew what they were doing. If 80% can get them removed it is a better percentage than marriage. Seems like compared to smoking, tattooing is removable enough and no one is killed by tattoos. Anderson and company know lasers produce carcinogenic particles. (ww)

Dr. Anderson: and we don’t have great ability to remove tattoos. We succeed 75-80% of the time.

Dr. Anderson: If the FDA did regulate tattoos and they were made of safe materials, sterile, well tolerated by the skin, and could be removed, it would be a game-changer.

(ww) FDA does not need to regulate tattoo ink BECAUSE INKS ARE MADE OF SAFE MATERIALS, ARE STERILE, ARE WELL TOLERATED BY THE SKIN.
How is it Dr. under not to know this? (ww)

 Dr. Anderson: It failed ( Infinite Ink) because we ended up coming up with a really expensive tattoo ink in 2008 during the economic recession.

(ww) It failed because in a decade only one bottle was sold.

Dr. Anderson: I still love the idea of a safe removable tattoo.

(ww) He left out the removable part. That is the stumbling block. (ww)

Dr. Anderson: What I learned from this is that when you come up with an idea make sure you understand the ecosystem that the invention has to fit into. The cost of tattoo ink is less than $10.00. Removable ink that costs $300 is not tolerated.

(ww) He blames an "ecosystem" (?), a time when more tattoos were being made than ever. $300 cost? Really? More like $25. Maybe this means the FDA will require Infinite ink and Artists will pay $300 an ounce. (ww)

(ww) As a by-word it has taken the Dr, with the Brits and the EU (The Draft Guidance shows it was the Brits) to get our USA Congress, both houses to pass MoCRA of 2022, an Act of Congress to enable the FDA to eliminate non-laser-removable TATTOO pigment inks from the market.

WE MUST RESIST.

TATTOO BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE.
Eliminating from the market
NON-REMOVABLE TATTOO INK SEEMS A VIOLATION OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO TATTOO OURSELVES Non-Remove-ably.
The inks used have been in use for 30 or more years used safely and effectively in 100s of millions of tattoos by millions of tattooists.
THAT IS THE PROOF!