UPDATE (July 15, 2021, 10:50 A.M. We believe this is the right decision to ensure consumers are confident in using sunscreen products."
Customers can also ask questions and request a refund by calling the JJCI Consumer Care Center 24/7 at 1-800-458-1673.
A statement about the recall by the FDA provided toAllurereads: “The FDA is aware of this recall.
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hey refer to the Johnson & Johnson press release regarding the nature of their recall.
The FDA takes seriously any safety concerns raised about products we regulate, including sunscreens.
The FDA recommends that consumers do not continue to use products that are being recalled.”
Concerns about sunscreen safety, many entirely unfounded, continue to bubble up.
This is an issue of manufacturing contamination, not sunscreen formulations that pose health risks.
Over the last few decades, excessive levels of benzene have been found insoft drinksand other beverages.)
How bad is it?
Benzene “is not an ingredient in sunscreens and never has been,” he explains.
In other words: Benzene is not supposed to be anywhere near the sunscreen manufacturing process.
If you’re not familiar with benzene, you’re not alone.
Be wary of contamination theories.
We all agree that it shouldn’t be there.
And the question is: If that’s the case, how did it get there?
At this point, we have more questions than answers, and contamination theories rather than facts.
What’s the FDA saying?
Where do we go from here?
“There is nothing more important than safety.
On an individual level, there are precautions you’re free to take.
If you have any sunscreen in your home (and we hope you do!
“We all agree that it shouldn’t be there.
And the question is: If that’s the case, how did it get there?
Was it a by-product?”
But whatever you do, urges Avram, absolutely do not stop wearing sunscreen.
Additional reporting by Kara McGrath.
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