A nationwide recall has been issued for hundreds of bottles of Dynacare baby powder due to potential asbestos contamination.
The recall, which was announced Thursday, includes 62 cases of the baby powder produced by Dynarex Corporation. The affected items were produced under batch number B051 and were sent to distributors on or after March 11 in 12 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin. The baby powder was also sold online at Amazon .com.
Asbestos, according to a news release about the recall that was published by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), is a naturally occurring mineral often found near talc, which is used in several cosmetic products. When mining talc, if the sites are “not selected carefully or steps [are] taken to purify the talc ore sufficiently,” Dynarex said, the talc could become contaminated with asbestos…