US regulators say they’re taking the issue seriously. Reports of contaminated items keep coming
  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Where is all the benzene coming from? It’s not an actual ingredient in these products.

    • Is it purposeful adulteration?
    • A byproduct of another ingredient breaking down into benzene?
    • Something used to clean the manufacturing or packaging equipment?
    • credo@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      It seems like a stretch to ask people to try reading the article, but it’s in the second paragraph:

      They had no way of knowing the gas, derived from fossil fuel, wasn’t properly purified and contaminated the sunscreen with benzene

      • reddig33@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Thanks. Last two times I’d read about this the articles didn’t include any info about where the benzene was coming from. I guess they finally figured it out. Neutragena had a recall last time this happened. And know that I’ve read the article I can see that’s mentioned too.