{"id":3318,"date":"2021-07-17T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2021-07-17T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:36:49","slug":"benzene-in-sunscreens-linked-to-cancer-risk-killer-tan-can-be-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/benzene-in-sunscreens-linked-to-cancer-risk-killer-tan-can-be-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"BENZENE IN SUNSCREENS LINKED TO CANCER RISK&#8211;KILLER TAN CAN BE DEADLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pexels-moose-photos-1029896-300x200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-1000x668.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pexels-moose-photos-1029896-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>CANCER CAUSING BENZENE FOUND IN SUNSCREENS LINKED TO HIGHER RISK&#8211;KILLER TAN CAN BE DEADLY &#8211; 40 SUNSCREEN BRANDS RECALLED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 17, 2021, San Antonio, Texas:\u00a0 Sunscreen products have been pulled from shelves across the country after they were found to contain significant amounts of benzene, a known carcinogen.\u00a0 Experts say any benzene exposure poses a health risk.\u00a0Benzene has been linked to increased cancer risk since and had five times higher than normal risk of leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as a safe level of exposure, and that&#8217;s especially true for children,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-05-28\/sunscreen-with-leukemia-causing-benzene-is-latest-summer-worry\" class=\"broken_link\">Philip Landrigan<\/a>, director of the Global Public Health Program and Global Pollution Observatory at Boston College.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/benzene-in-sunscreens-linked-to-cancer-risk-killer-tan-can-be-deadly\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading BENZENE IN SUNSCREENS LINKED TO CANCER RISK&#8211;KILLER TAN CAN BE DEADLY\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANCER CAUSING BENZENE FOUND IN SUNSCREENS LINKED TO HIGHER RISK&#8211;KILLER TAN CAN BE DEADLY &#8211; 40 SUNSCREEN BRANDS RECALLED July 17, 2021, San Antonio, Texas:\u00a0 Sunscreen products have been pulled from shelves across the country after they were found to contain significant amounts of benzene, a known carcinogen.\u00a0 Experts say any benzene exposure poses a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,9,1],"tags":[447,448,82,444,87,445,446,449],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangerous-or-defective-products","category-product-liability","category-uncategorized","tag-benzene-cancer-risk","tag-benzene-health-risk","tag-dangerous-and-defective-products","tag-johnson-johnson-recall","tag-product-liability","tag-recall-sunscreen","tag-sunscreen-recall-and-cancer-risk","tag-sunscreen-recall-list"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BENZENE IN SUNSCREENS LINKED TO CANCER RISK--KILLER TAN CAN BE DEADLY &#8212; 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