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Safe Cosmetics Act Aims To Lessen Cancer Risk
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The state that is home to Extreme Makeover and the Miss Universe pageant seems like an unlikely locale for the country's first state cosmetics regulatory act. But not to State Sen. Carole Migden and her constituents in San Francisco and adjacent Marin County. They see cosmetics as likely contributors to the area's unusually high rate of breast cancer.
There is little direct evidence linking cancer and cosmetics, but Migden's safe-cosmetics bill passed easily through the state legislature with the support of the Breast Cancer Fund and other California-based advocacy groups. Although the landmark bill applies only to cosmetics sold in California, it's expected to shape the formulas of products sold from Pacific Grove to Atlantic City. It is unclear whether carcinogen-free cosmetics would affect the cancer rate. Too little is known about what cosmetics are absorbed through the skin and whether the dose is high enough to cause any harm.
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