EWG Seeks Ban On Hair-Dye Ingredient, Fighting Lead On Multiple Fronts

EWG – already seeking prohibitions on trace lead in cosmetics – joins with a slew of other consumer advocacy groups seeking a ban on lead acetate’s use in progressive hair dyes. The color additive was approved by FDA more than three decades ago before lead exposure risks were fully understood, they suggest.

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The Environmental Working Group and other consumer watchdogs are petitioning FDA to prohibit use of lead acetate in hair dyes, arguing that studies conducted since FDA’s 1980 approval of the color additive challenge the agency’s former safety conclusions.

“The continued use of lead acetate as a hair colorant used in the home will inevitably result in dangerous lead...

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