Cosmetics Industry Group Prevails in Cancer Warning Challenge

The Personal Care Product Council convinced a federal judge that California’s requirement to warn consumers that titanium dioxide is carcinogenic to humans was unlawful.

Here, “the key issue is whether there is a scientific consensus around Listed Titanium Dioxide’s carcinogenicity in humans,” Judge Troy L. Nunley of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California said Tuesday. California’s attorney general Rob Bonta “does not point to any conclusive scientific studies or evidence to establish” the chemical “causes cancer in humans,” the judge added.

California’s Proposition 65 required businesses to post cancer warnings about the presence of titanium dioxide ...