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Consumer group pushes J&J on chemicals in shampoo

Associated Press, LINDA A. JOHNSON
Published May 26, 2009

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A coalition of health, environmental and consumer groups is demanding that health products giant Johnson & Johnson remove tiny amounts of two chemicals suspected of causing cancer from its Johnson's Baby Shampoo and other products. In a letter sent late Friday by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics to J&J's chief executive, William Weldon, the seven-year-old group asks the company by the end of August to reformulate its personal care products so that they are free of 1,4-dioxane and any preservatives that release formaldehyde. to continue reading please go to: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iLe9RumUuPWXNXVJvb5By5...
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