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Identification and Analysis of Contamination Trends Three major recall databases—those of the US FDA, the United Kingdom’s Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (UK MHRA), and Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)—were searched to assess contamination trends in the past five years. 3 (2009): 313.
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The previous trip to Poland was in 2009, when I had a lot of health issues, but not yet a diagnosis. Triclosan, found in antibacterial soaps, toothpaste, deodorants, and hair sprays, has a structure that resembles that of thyroid hormones and was thankfully banned from antibacterial soaps by the FDA in 2016 due to thyroid toxicity. [7]
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