Baby powder recall over possible asbestos contamination

A type of baby powder distributed successful 35 states and sold online done Amazon is being recalled owed to imaginable contamination pinch asbestos.

The Dynarex Corporation said Monday that its earlier recall of Dynacare Baby Powder, initiated successful September, had expanded from 12 states to 35, according to a institution announcement connected nan U.S. Food and Drug Administration website.

The institution said nan recalled Dynacare Baby Powder products were sold connected aliases aft Jan. 18, 2024, successful Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin and online done Amazon.com.

Dynacare babe powder.

FDA

The recalled products see some 4-ounce and 14-ounce sizes, according to Monday's announcement.

Dynarex has instructed customers to instantly discontinue usage of recalled Dynacare Baby Powder products and return them for a afloat refund. There person been nary illnesses aliases adverse events reported to day successful relationship pinch nan recall, according to Dynarex.

Questions astir refunds and returns tin beryllium directed to Dynarex Corporation astatine 888-396-2739 aliases 845-365-8200 during business hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, aliases by email astatine recall@dynarex.com.

Dynacare babe powder.

FDA

The institution first announced nan callback connected Sept. 19 pursuing "routine sampling" by nan FDA, "which revealed that nan vanished products contained asbestos," a known carcinogen, nan institution stated astatine that time.

"Upon further investigation, we person identified further tons of products that whitethorn incorporate asbestos owed to utilizing nan aforesaid bulk talc material," Dynarex stated connected Monday. "The institution has ceased nan distribution of nan merchandise arsenic an investigation is proceeding to find what caused nan contamination of nan talc."

According to nan Environmental Protection Agency, asbestos "is a mineral fibre that occurs successful stone and soil" that "has been utilized successful a assortment of building building materials for insulation and arsenic a occurrence retardant" and "in a wide scope of manufactured goods."

"Exposure to asbestos increases your consequence of processing lung disease," nan EPA states. "That consequence is made worse by smoking. In general, nan greater nan vulnerability to asbestos, nan greater nan chance of processing harmful wellness effects. Disease symptoms whitethorn return galore years to create pursuing exposure."

As Dynarex noted Monday, asbestos "is often recovered adjacent talc, an constituent successful galore cosmetic products."

"If talc mining sites are not cautiously chosen aliases if due steps are not taken to adequately purify nan talc ore, it whitethorn incorporate asbestos," nan institution said.