Mandatory testing of talc-containing cosmetic products is coming. At the end of December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a cosmetics rule and test method for asbestos in talc that ...

March 22, 2019 After the recent discovery of asbestos fibers in three makeup products sold by the retailer Claire's, a new bill has been introduced into legislation that would require more ...

NIOSH 740 2 – This method, an adjunct to NIOSH 7400, employs TEM to determine the percentage of asbestos fibers as a fraction of all fibers found by PCM under NIOSH 7400.

In 2019, the FDA found asbestos in cosmetics sold by Claire's Stores, prompting recalls by the retailer and Beauty Plus Global. More recently, New Jersey's Dynarex in late October expanded a ...

A New Jersey jury has awarded $3 million to a woman who claimed her husband, a potter, died after contracting mesothelioma from asbestos fibers inhaled while working with industrial talc, a ...

The lawsuit also cited a company memo from 1973 that allegedly claimed that its Talc Powder contained “identifiable” amounts of tremolite and actinolite, two types of asbestos fibers.