Procter & Gamble Recalls 30 Aerosol Spray Products

Dec. 20, 2021

The Procter & Gamble Company has recalled greater than 30 aerosol spray merchandise due to worries about ranges of benzene, which is understood to trigger most cancers.

Some of the merchandise have the model names Pantene, Aussie, Herbal Essences, Waterless, and Old Spice, and Hair Food, P&G stated in an announcement posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s web site.

A full checklist of recalled merchandise will be discovered on the FDA’s and the corporate’s web site. People who purchased the merchandise ought to throw them away. Consumers can acquire refunds by filling out a type on the corporate web site or by calling a hotline at 1-888-674-36319.

“Based on exposure modeling and the cancer risk assessments published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (IRIS database), daily exposure to benzene in the recalled products at the levels detected in our testing would not be expected to cause adverse health consequences,” the announcement stated.

“To date, The Procter & Gamble Company has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall and is conducting this recall out of an abundance of caution.”

This is the corporate’s second recall in lower than a month. On Nov. 23, it introduced it was recalling 18 Old Spice and Secret aerosol spray antiperspirants and Old Spice Below Deck aerosol spray merchandise due to considerations about benzene.

People will be uncovered to benzene by inhalation, orally, and thru the pores and skin, the announcement stated. Benzene may cause cancers akin to leukemia and blood most cancers of the bone marrow, in addition to blood issues