Bat Guano Controversy
An urban legend mentions the use of bat guano as one of the ingredients of mascara. It is actually guanine, not guano, that is authorized as a color additive for cosmetics by the FDA and European regulations, and it must be extracted from fish scales, not bat guano.
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