Johnson & Johnson and Costco Wholesale Corp. have reached a settlement with plaintiffs over the recall of a variety of J&J sunscreen products found to contain benzene, a known human carcinogen. The recall was carried out by J&J voluntarily and affected four of its Neutrogena products and one that carried the Aveeno label.
The issue of sunscreen contamination took center stage this summer after online pharmacy Valisure ...
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Temperatures are starting to cool and attention is turning to autumn leaves and the holiday season but not before yet another sunscreen recall has pulled product off of store shelves. Coppertone is the latest brand to be affected by an aerosol sunscreen recall that has been triggered by the discovery of benzene contamination across a wide variety of sun care products.
Benzene is a known carcinogen ...
continue reading...Johnson & Johnson recently announced the voluntary recall of a number of its aerosol-based sunscreens as a result of ongoing concerns over benzene contamination of the products. The sunscreens in question are all aerosols and fall within the corporation’s Neutrogena and Aveeno product lines.
Benzene is a known human carcinogen, or a product that is known to cause cancer. And, while exposure to benzene on ...
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Valisure, the online pharmacy responsible for discovering NDMA contamination of Zantac and benzene contamination of a significant number of brands of hand sanitizer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the United States, has once again discovered contamination in products that would have otherwise gone unnoticed by federal regulators.
The pharmacy, known for its policy of independent product testing, has discovered traces of ...
continue reading...Online pharmacy Valisure is in the news once again as its ongoing product testing has revealed high levels of benzene in a number of brands of hand sanitizer currently on the market and available for sale.
Valisure’s policy of independently testing the products it sells for purity and contamination initially came to light after it discovered elevated levels of NDMA in heartburn medication Zantac. News of the find came long before the issue had found its way onto the FDA’s ...
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Things have quickly gone from bad to worse for GlaxoSmithKline and its popular heartburn medication Zantac. And it all began thanks to the care and caution of an online pharmacy; not a government regulator.
The pharmacy, Valisure, tests all the medications it makes available to its customers itself. And it was that testing; not that of the FDA or any other government entity tasked with keeping its citizens safe, that ...
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