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Torts/Personal Injury

Mar. 12, 2024

Acne products named in multiple proposed class actions

The class actions follow independent testing that showed some face products contained greater than 800 times 2 ppm, the maximum amount of benzene allowed in any U.S. regulated drug.

Skin care products containing high levels of benzoyl peroxide drew another lawsuit, this one in federal court in Los Angeles.

“These defendants are selling a product that contains very high levels of Benzene and it’s a product that children and young adults apply to their face and breathe in,” R. Brent Wisner, managing partner at Wisner Baum LLP in Santa Monica, said.

Dozens of complaints have been filed in re...

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