P&G Recalls Secret, Old Spice Sprays For Benzene Contamination As Class Actions Mount Around US

There’s an increasingly familiar pattern to leading personal-care manufacturers’ benzene troubles in the states: Independent testing lab Valisure flags their product(s) as contaminated with the carcinogen; class actions file in federal courts; and, frequently, recalls are undertaken “out of an abundance of caution.”

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Procter & Gamble Co. is recalling Old Spice and Secret antiperspirant and deodorant sprays, and facing class actions in federal courts, after findings of carcinogenic benzene in its products.

The firm’s 23 November recall announcements list 18 SKUs in the US and eight in Canada that are being pulled off retailer

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