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Calls for FDA to regulate hair straighteners

Calls for FDA to regulate hair straighteners

Wall Street Journal

Anjali Athavaley

May 17, 2011

Members of Congress are asking the Food and Drug Administration to issue a voluntary recall of two hair-straightening treatments sold in salons under the brand name Brazilian Blowout, citing concerns about unacceptably high levels of formaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen.

Congressional representatives including Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.) earlier this month wrote to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg calling for a voluntary recall of the Brazilian Blowout treatments. The letter cites a 2010 study by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division that found formaldehyde—considered a probable human carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency—in the Brazilian Blowout Solution and Brazilian Blowout Acai Professional Smoothing Solution.

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