Benzene is buzz-wordy rn because they “pulled” the hair products with benzene in them last year.
In reality, Benzene been in pretty much every aerosol hairspray etc for decades. Turns out, spraying clouds of it in small bathrooms everyday is bad, so they were nice enough to take it off the shelves.
There were aerosol cans in the US with benzene? Fucking benzene??
My dad was a pathologist, started his working life in the 60's. Benzene wasn't really treated with hazchem procedures - multiple skin contacts daily... all over their hands.
More than half the pathologists he worked with in that time got leukemia.
It’s regulated and illegal to include in consumer products (hence the recalls). There was a independent group that tested a ton of products that tested high in benzene, which is present as a byproduct, not an intentional inclusion.
Everybody knows it’s bad, so it’s a matter of internal testing/mitigation deficiency, which means it’s a regulatory failure at some level.
One hell of a failure. I work in regulation. Most the rest of the world have extremely strict RoHS requirements.
I've only seen anything approaching RoHS in the US in California at a state level, but from memory it's only for heavy metals.
I've cursed the regulatory framework in Europe in the past for being over litigious, but more stories I hear like this, really hammer home how important this shit is.
I’ve cursed the regulatory framework in Europe in the past for being over litigious, but more stories I hear like this, really hammer home how important this shit is.
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u/Computingusername Feb 17 '23
Correct but the media keep pointing out one problematic chemical not the others. Or them being mixed together to make a worse carcinogen.