Cue The Class Actions! Plaintiffs React To Valisure’s Benzene Findings In Acne Drug Products

J&J, Target and Walgreens face class action complaints in California federal courts for economic harms caused by their sale of benzoyl peroxide-containing acne treatments, following Valisure’s 5 March citizen petition to the US FDA on findings of high levels of benzene in such products.

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Valisure LLC’s latest findings of excessive benzene levels in drug products – this time, benzoyl peroxide-containing acne drug treatments – have given rise to class action complaints in California federal courts targeting Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Inc., Target Corporation, and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

In each case, plaintiff(s) represented by counsel at Wisner Baum LLP seek to “redress the economic harms caused by Defendant’s sale of benzoyl peroxide acne treatment drug products [BPO products] without warning consumers the BPO Products contained unsafe levels of the potent human carcinogen benzene, and that the BPO

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