Re:Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
by mr_toad on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:31PM
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Yeah and you literally can’t breathe without risking being exposed to benzene. It’s in many adhesives, paints and petrol.
If you want to adopt a zero tolerance policy for benzene then you’d need to ban petrol. Or stop breathing.
From the original article: "The toxicity of benzene in humans has been well established for over 120 years. The hematotoxicity of benzene has been described as early as 1897. A study from 1939 on benzene stated that “exposure over a long period of time to any concentration of benzene greater than zero is not safe,” which is a comment reiterated in a 2010 review of benzene research specifically stating “There is probably no safe level of exposure to benzene, and all exposures constitute some risk in a linear, if not supralinear, and additive fashion.”