Consumers, Health Practitioners Heeded FDA’s Call For WEN-Related AEs

FDA’s safety alert in July, asking WEN users and their doctors to share information regarding hair loss-related adverse events, yielded approximately 1,000 reports in just over two months, contributing to a massive increase in cosmetic AE reports for FY 2016.

FDA received close to a thousand adverse event reports associated with WEN products in the closing months of fiscal 2016 following a public appeal for information, which could prompt lawmakers and consumer advocates to ask why the agency waited to issue the call.

Hair loss-related complaints linked to WEN Cleansing Conditions trace back at least as far as 2010. Class actions...

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