J&J Recall Of Benzene-Tainted Sunscreens Lends Weight To Valisure Claims, Triggers Class Action

Some seven weeks after Valisure LLC announced its finding of carcinogen benzene in dozens of sunscreens marketed to US consumers, Johnson & Johnson is recalling five spray sunscreens for trace amounts of the substance detected in internal testing.

J&J maintains the move was made out of an abundance of caution and that, based on US Environmental Protection Agency framework and modeling, “daily exposure to benzene in these aerosol sunscreen products at the levels detected