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Posted on 02/15/2012 2:12:05 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Four hundred of the nation's most popular lipsticks contained trace levels of lead when tested recently by the federal government, confirming similar results of earlier analyses but on a much wider scale and at higher levels than previously detected.
Five L'Oreal and Maybelline lipsticks, owned by L'Oreal USA, ranked among the top 10 most contaminated brands, according to the analysis by the Food and Drug Administration. Two Cover Girl and two NARS lipsticks also landed in top 10 slots, as did one from Stargazer.
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Nor does the safety group has any scientific basis for its claims the trace levels are dangerous.
Article is utterly worthless without some context as to trace levels of lead found in other routinely contacted materials.
“nder California law, lead concentrations in excess of 5 parts per million trigger a requirement that businesses provide a warning to consumers.
The majority of the lipsticks in the FDA study fell below that threshold. But two exceeded it, Maybelline’s “Pink Petal” and L’Oreal’s Colour Riche “Volcanic” lipstick.”
As detection levels of newer, more modern equipment gets lower and lower, it will lead to lead and other contaminants being found at trace levels in more and more products. The challenge is to figure out what this information means.
5 PPM is .00005%. That is not a lot of lead.
“Four hundred of the nation’s most popular lipsticks contained trace levels of lead when tested recently by the federal government”......
Now don’t you think that our “government workers” have something better to do than this? Seems there is some real need to address autisim, cancer and a host of other issues other than lipstick. How many people actually got cancer from lipstick?
Oh wait, perhaps those lipstick manufacturers didn’t cough up enough cash towards Buckwheat’s re-election. Simple answer to just go after whomever they see as non-contributors. I’m probably on their list too and anticipate getting my tax audit notice.
The motto that toxicologists live by is, “The dose makes the poison.”
It certainly applies here.
The legal thresholds for most toxins or for radiation exposure are typically set orders of magnitude below any quantity shown to have a biological effect. So, even if a substance tests out as above the legal limit, it most likely is still within the safety margin.
Yep. For a generous donation to Obama’s dictatorship I bet these studies just disappear into thin air.
Yep. For a generous donation to Obama’s dictatorship I bet these studies just disappear into thin air.
Lipstick + Thomas the Train toys = TOXIC
Wonder where this stuff is produced?? 8I
THE LIPS THAT TOUCH LEAD
SHALL NEVER TOUCH MINE
The Demon of Plumbum is about in the land,
His victims are falling on every hand,
The wise and the simple, the brave and the fair,
No station too high for his vengence to spare.
O women, the sorrow and pain is with you,
And so be the joy and the victory, too;
With this for your motto, and succor divine,
The lips that touch lead shall never touch mine,
Remember Lily Tomlin playing Edith, when she was going through the lady’s purse? “Lipstick. Is that lipstick? You do not need lipstick. You could just take a red jelly bean and wet it. And it don’t cost a dollar.” (That was about the price of mid range lipstick back then.)
Don’t recall her skit but lead in lipstick just doesn’t seem like one of those major problems of the world at a few parts per billion.
To put perspective on a billion: Seven or eight times around the earth would be near a billion feet.
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