Lipstick Recall Petition - Amid growing calls for a lipstick recall, the FDA adamantly refuses to admit that lead in lipstick is even a problem, let alone issue a recall order.
Click here to sign the Lipstick Recall Petition online and urge the FDA to take action!
Lead has been scientifically proven to be a poison to the human body. Common health problems include brain damage, retardation, emotional problems, and behavioral problems. Children and pregnant or nursing woman are especially at high risk from lead exposure.
Lipstick Recall Petition Needed!
The Food and Drug Adminstration has been made aware of concerns about lead in lipstick many times in the past, but has refused to investigate.
“Many of the reports have been urban legends,” said FDA spokesperson Stephanie Kwisnek. She added the agency has no plans to take action in response to the latest report from the Campaign For Safe Cosmetics.
Campaign For Safe Cosmetics found in extensive laboratory testing that 61% of all lipstick contained measurable amounts of lead. Not only that, but several designer brands like L’Oreal, Cover Girl, Maybelline, and Dior had lipstick lead levels well above what is considered “safe” by the FDA for human consumption in candy.
Read details here in our previous post on lead in lipstick.
Given that teenage girls use lots of lipstick and that lead exposure is especially harmful to developing reproductive organs, the FDA’s lack of concern is alarming to scientists and consumers alike.
And that’s the latest news on the growing chorus of voices demanding action from the FDA with a lipstick recall petition.
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October 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am
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November 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am
First, kids dying from lead in toys. Now, they find high levels of lead in lipsticks. What’s next – lead in food? Are women going to start dying now too from using lipstick too much?
Freaky!
There’s a detailed report about it at http://www.myproductalert.com/lead-in-lipsticks.html
September 13th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I have had a bad reaction from Cover Girls Long Lasting Lipstick. Has anyone else? Anything being done about it?
J. Spence
April 15th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Count me in. Thank you!
September 13th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Thanks for the warning!
September 13th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Does the recall include men’s lipstick as well?