Dear FDA … Hello? Who is watching the store?
The FDA is saying they will “look into” the report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics that 61% of lipsticks tested contain lead. Here’s what FDA should do: test a wide range of lipsticks for lead and publicly report the results, so we can know how far the beauty industry’s lead problem goes. The CSC tests tell us two things: many lipsticks contain lead, and many do not. It’s obviously possible to make lead-free red lipstick. So why aren’t all companies doing so?
As top lead-offender L’Oreal keeps telling the press, their products are in “full compliance with FDA regulations.” Yet there are no FDA regulations limiting lead in lipstick. Now, US Senators are pressuring FDA to take action. Former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, along with California Sens. Feinstein and Boxer, are calling on FDA to test lipsticks for lead and tell the public what they find. Stay tuned…
January 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Is anyone aware of what they are drinking when they fill their cups with tapwater? Arsenic, Lead, Radon, to name a few, are some of the chemicals known to be in water. Do we remove them entirely from our water? No, but the levels of these chemicals that are in our water are regulated and kept at levels that are supposed to be low enough for our bodies to manage. I just want to point out that people shouldn’t freak out about lead being in Lipstick. What they should worry about are the LEVELS being absorbed by the body. Yes, if government is regulating water which goes into our body, they should also regulate other products that are absorbed by our bodies.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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