The others either did not protect skin enough from some radiation that can cause skin cancer or included ingredients linked to possible health hazards.
For instance, if you're seeing red because pink-marketed beauty products often contain ingredients linked to cancer, join up with groups such as the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics or just fire off an email or ten to companies.
So if the processed food we buy in Aisle 9 contains ingredients linked to hyperactivity in children, then rather than ban the use of that synthetic ingredient and insist on the use of a more natural alternative, as countries around the world have done, we simply have to walk a few aisles over in the grocery store to pick up our ADHD medicines from Aisle 2. And our economy hums along.
This ingredient is linked to hormone problems.
Some people are afraid of using antiperspirants because they think the ingredients are linked to a higher risk for breast cancer[12] and Alzheimer's disease[13].
Tasting and ingredient information were linked to the intrinsic factor.
Foods with attached health claims which go beyond the normal nutritional content and impact, the so-called functional foods, have to meet all existing requirements and consumers expectations with regard to all sensory aspects, convenience and pricing, but also have to actually deliver the functional ingredient which is linked to the claimed health effect.
Another chemical, retinyl palmitate, sometimes listed among the inactive ingredients, has been linked to skin cancers in animal studies.
Later, one of the product's key ingredients, carbinoxamine, was linked to 21 baby deaths, and the FDA pulled other products containing carbinoxamine from the market.
And just like that, almost everything we got as shower gifts related to hygiene went back to the store: well-known diaper cremes, shampoo, baby wash, etc. with ingredients that are linked to cancer and other major issues.
