EXCLUSIVE Interview Valisure Detects Benzene in Sunscreen: 78 sunscreen and after-sun care products contained benzene, an industrial chemical known to cause cancer and other potentially serious health risks
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b for its members of the Valisure data suggesting products to avoid and which might be safest with regard to the benzene results.
FDA currently recognizes the serious danger of benzene and lists it as a “
Class 1 solvent” that “should not be employed in the manufacture of drug substances, excipients, and drug products because of their unacceptable toxicity…However, if their use is unavoidable in order to produce a drug product with a significant therapeutic advance, then their levels should be restricted” and benzene is restricted to 2 ppm for these special circumstances. Being that many of the tested sunscreen and after-sun care products did not contain detectable levels of benzene, it does not appear that benzene use is unavoidable for their manufacture and considering the long history of widespread use of these products, it also does not appear that they currently constitute a significant therapeutic advance; therefore, any sign
EXCLUSIVE Interview Valisure Detects Benzene in Sunscreen: 78 sunscreen and after-sun care products contained benzene, an industrial chemical known to cause cancer and other potentially serious health risks