Markey to FDA: Don’t Blow Off Risks of Brazilian Blowout
Sudbury's Congressman Edward Markey pushes the FDA for action, after workers, customers report serious health impacts from exposure to formaldehyde in hair straightening products.
Sudbury's U.S. Rep. Ed Markey wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate hair straightening treatments, including the Brazilian Blowout. Markey, along with democratic congressmen from Oregon and Illinois, sent a letter to Food & Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Tuesday urging the agency to protect salon workers and consumers from these straightening treatments which contain formaldehyde. Formaldehyde has been classified as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in amounts that exceeds FDA guidelines. Across America, complaints have been reported by hair salon workers and …
Jane Meyer
12:35 pm on Thursday, December 27, 2012
If you look into this issue there are a lot of products on the market that are very harmful and the companies are hiding the dangers to the public. Formaldehyde is no laughing matter and if getting cancer is something's that you think is not as important and other issues you are mistaken. Remember china with the Colgate? This is no different. Those who get the treatment are the most exposed, but … more ›