Suits over consumer goods allegedly tainted with undisclosed benzene continue to mount, with
The litigation follows a citizen petition by independent testing lab Valisure, which asked the Food and Drug Administration on Nov. 3 to recall numerous spray antiperspirant and deodorant products found to contain elevated levels of benzene, a known human carcinogen.
Valisure found average concentrations of benzene above the FDA’s concentration limit of 2 ppm in 16 spray deodorants, including a Unilever Suave product, according to a proposed class suit in the U.S. ...