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Banned by California Courts without a Prop 65 warning, because it has carcinogens.
I was looking at the ingredients list, and found out that this product contains cancer causing heavy metals. The manufacturer of the offending ingredient "ConcenTrace" has been sued and had a judgment placed against them, requiring them to either remove the toxins, apply a prominent warning, or cease allowing distribution to California. Details are below.
One of the ingredients is "ConcenTrace", made by Trace Minerals Research LC. ConcenTrace is a concentrated mineral residue product made by evaporating water from the Utah salt lakes. The manufacturer reports on their website that ConcenTrace contains various carcinogenic heavy metals including: Arsenic, Lead, Beryllium, Cadmium, and Mercury. (To see the unabridged ingredients list, search for: "ConcenTrace ingredients lead")
Trace Minerals Research was sued in 2014 (case number: RG14735532), by the Environmental Research Center in the public interest, in the Superior Court of California in Alameda, for failing to warn customers about the carcinogenic and toxic ingredients in their products. The court ordered Trace Minerals Research to either remove the toxins, or to apply a warning to their products, or to stop selling their products in California. Copied below is an excerpt from the court judgment.
"INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, REFORMULATION, TESTING AND WARNINGS
3.1 Beginning on the Effective Date, Trace Minerals shall be permanently enjoined from manufacturing for sale in the State of California, “Distributing into the State of California,” or directly selling in the State of California, any Covered Product which exposes a person to a “Daily Exposure Level” of more than 0.5 micrograms per day when the maximum suggested dose is taken as directed on the Covered Product’s label, unless it meets the warning requirements under Section 3.2."
February 2019 · Health and Household · verified purchase