(Cassie B.) Many people wouldn’t dream of spending long days outside enjoying the summer sun without generous amounts of sunscreen, but those who are using one of five popular formulas could end up developing the very disease they are hoping to avoid: cancer.
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Cancer-Causing Chemical Benzene Found in Johnson Johnson Sunscreen Products
(Arsenio Toledo) Johnson & Johnson announced on Wednesday, July 14, that it is recalling several of its sunscreen products from five different product lines after discovering they contained benzene, a known cancer-causing chemical.
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Cancer-causing Chemical Detected in 78 Sunscreens, FDA Petitioned to Recall Contaminated Products
(Evangelyn Rodriguez) An independent lab that tests the quality of medications and health products recently found that many sunscreens sold on the market are contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical called benzene. After testing almost 300 unique batches of commercial sunscreens, Valisure discovered that 27 percent contained detectable levels of the toxic chemical while five percent contained levels that exceeded the limit recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This has led the online pharmacy to file a petition for these products to be removed from market shelves.