Many of the makeup products that Canadian women apply every day contain a number of toxic heavy metals – and some contain arsenic and lead levels that exceed Health Canada recommended limits. That's what the Canadian environmental advocacy group Environmental Defence found when it submitted 49 makeup products to lab testing. The tests revealed heavy metals in all the products -- none of which were listed on the labels.
Almost all the heavy metals found were within limits set out in Health Canada's 'Draft Guidance on Heavy Metal Impurities in Cosmetics.' But Rick Smith, Environmental Defence's executive director, notes that those guidelines aren't even yet law; instead, they've been 'sitting on a shelf' for more than two years.
Smith is now calling on Health Canada to tighten up those regulations and make cosmetic companies list all metals on their product labels because 'Canadians deserve to know what is in their cosmetics.'
'People shouldn't have to be chemical engineers when they shop for their cosmetics. We need better labelling with these kinds of toxic chemicals,' he told CTV's Canada AM Monday morning. (read more)
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