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News (8/15, story 9, 0:25,, Sawyer) reported, "There is a big
announcement tonight from Johnson & Johnson. The company says it will
change the ingredients in all its cosmetics, creams and baby items to guarantee
they no longer contain even trace amounts of chemicals that could be linked to
cancer. The company's been under pressure to make its products safer."
According to the AP (8/16, Johnson), J&J released a
statement saying it is planning to "remove potentially cancer-causing and
other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and cosmetic
products worldwide." Late last year, the company "pledged to remove
'chemicals of concern' from its baby products around the world after being
pressed to do so for more than three years by a large coalition of health and
environmental groups." And on Tuesday, J&J reiterated that vow, saying
it "remains on track to have baby products...reformulated with safer
ingredients by the end of 2013"; and it expects to have its adult products
"reformulated by the end of 2015." Additionally, J&J on
Wednesday, "launched a website, safetyandcarecommitment.com" to keep
consumers informed on "what it does to ensure its ingredients are safe and
of high quality."
On the front page of its Business Day section, the New York Times (8/16, B1, Thomas, Subscription
Publication) reports that among the ingredients J&J plans to remove is
formaldehyde, which "last year was identified by government scientists as
a carcinogen," and is released by common preservatives such as "quaternium-15
and DMDM hydantoin," and "1,4 dioxane," which is "created
during a process commonly used to make other ingredients gentler on the
skin." The company also plans to get rid of "phthalates, which have a
variety of uses, like lessening the stiffening effects of hair spray; several
fragrance ingredients"; triclosan, an antibacterial; and parabens, a
preservative.
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