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Ep 185: Dr. Barbara Sturm Says We Shouldn't Suffer for Beauty

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The Problem With the Media Reporting

GMA reported that phthalates and parabens were banned from hand soaps by the FDA in 2016 because of their potential to be linked to cancer, impaired reproductive ability and compromised neurodevelopment children. That's completely false. In 2016, the FDA did ban certain. bacterial fighting agents because there was too much,. There was bacteria growing, resistance to these things - but they're hardly used in hand soaps anymore anyway. Phthalates andParabens are widely used in handSoap and they have not been banned in hand Soaps by the FAA. I think people just don't understand. The science reporter over the producer at Good Morning America would not be just literally misin

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