Pawan Kumar
Multiple lawsuits filed against L’Oreal
In accordance with a ruling from the US court panel on multidistrict litigation, the complaints assert that the use of harmful chemicals in the hair products’ permanent straightening of textured hair makes them unsafe. It further claimed that while knowing their products included hazardous substances, the businesses nonetheless marketed and sold them. The L’Oreal USA US subsidiary and the Godrej SON Holdings Inc. and Dabur International Ltd. subsidiaries with Indian headquarters have been mentioned in the lawsuits.
The decision also said that the cases’ pretrial proceedings will be streamlined by the actions being consolidated into a multidistrict litigation under the supervision of US district judge Mary Rowland.
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According to a Reuters story, L’Oréal responded to the claims by stating that it is “assured in the safety of our products” and that it “believes the recent cases brought against us have no legal validity.”
The cases were brought after a National Institutes of Health research, which was published in October, revealed that women who used the devices frequently had a more than doubled risk of developing uterine cancer. Uterine cancer is the most prevalent gynecologic cancer in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the rates are frighteningly growing, especially among young Black women.
The risk of uterine cancer increases to 4.05 percent for frequent users, according to study leader Alexandra White of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Safety, from 1.64 percent of women who have never used hair straighteners by the age of 70.
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A total of 57 lawsuits have been brought against L’Oreal USA Inc. and other businesses in US federal courts, alleging that the hair relaxer products sold by these businesses cause cancer and other health issues.
