Cancer-causing asbestos found in Claire's cosmetics for children, pulled off shelves

Popular jewellery and accessory maker Claire's has stopped the sale of some of its makeup products after a television news report revealed that its cosmetics for children was contaminated with asbestos. 

A local television station in Providence, Rhode Island, reached out to Claire's revealing the contamination -- found after a law clerk from a firm that specialises in asbestos litigation, got the brand's makeup tested and found positive results for the poisonous substance. 

Kristi Warner, the Rhode Island-resident who got the tests done told the TV station that she bought the product at a local mall and mailed it to an independent lab in North Carolina. She was quite taken aback with the results



as it revealed that there is tremolite asbestos -- toxic, cancer-causing material. This prompted Warner and her boss John Deaton to buy more to solidify their claims and so they bought 17 more Claire makeup products from nine different states, had them tested and found tremolite asbestos in every single product, the report said.

After much investigation, Claire's identified the said products among their long list of cosmetics -- pink glitter makeup sets and bedazzled makeup sets. 

The company then went on record to say that they have “taken the precautionary measure of pulling the items in question from sale…and will be conducting an immediate investigation” into the issue.