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Environmental Working Group: FDA Emails - Scientists Pushed to Ban Formaldehyde-Based Hair-Smoothing Treatments as Early as 2015
October 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release:

Emails obtained by the Environmental Working Group reveal that in 2015 and 2016, scientists at the Food and Drug Administration urged the agency to ban formaldehyde in popular hair-smoothing treatments, also known as "Brazilian blowouts." Four years later, these hazardous treatments remain legal.

Today The New York Times published a report that details how the FDA scienti . . .

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