P&G Recalls Secret, Old Spice Sprays For Benzene Contamination As Class Actions Mount Around US
Executive Summary
There’s an increasingly familiar pattern to leading personal-care manufacturers’ benzene troubles in the states: Independent testing lab Valisure flags their product(s) as contaminated with the carcinogen; class actions file in federal courts; and, frequently, recalls are undertaken “out of an abundance of caution.”
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