Previous Spice, Secret deodorants recalled in Canada after benzene detected – Nationwide

Well being Canada has issued a recall on Friday for Previous Spice and Secret aerosol deodorants after benzene was detected in them.

The recall includes eight totally different merchandise from Proctor & Gamble that had been packaged in aerosol cans and bought between November 2019 and Nov. 23, 2021. Well being Canada stated 1.4 million items of the merchandise had been bought within the nation.

The company stated shoppers ought to “instantly cease utilizing the recalled product and discard them,” and that there are not any reviews of incidents or accidents associated to the merchandise in Canada.

Benzene is a human carcinogen that may end up in cancers similar to leukemia and most cancers of the bone marrow, in addition to blood issues that may be life-threatening, in keeping with the company. Publicity can happen by means of inhalation, orally or by means of the pores and skin.

Well being Canada says that day by day publicity to benzene within the recalled merchandise on the ranges detected in testing isn’t anticipated to trigger “adversarial well being penalties,” in keeping with publicity modeling and most cancers danger assessments from the U.S.’s Environmental Safety Company (EPA).

Canada’s recall comes three days after the U.S. issued its personal recall on Nov. 23 for a bigger array of Previous Spice and Secret deodorants whose expiry dates run to September 2023.