Although the US FDA issued a safety alert on March 5 that advised consumers to stop using select asbestos-containing cosmetics from Claire’s, a retail chain that caters to young women and girls, the retailer has refused to voluntarily recall the items, claiming that their testing by an independent laboratory showed no traces of the toxin. Read more about how this issue has highlighted the constraints faced by the FDA in regulating the cosmetics industry, in this informative article from HBW Insight.