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美國食品藥物管理局（U.S. Food and Drug Administration，FDA）官員與化妝品業者遠赴歐洲，就化妝品貿易障礙進行談判之際，一個非營利研究組織的新調查結果發現，在美國販售的上百種化妝品中含有化學物質，而即使消費者依照指示來使用，化妝品業者本身也確認這些化妝品是不安全的。
環境工作小組（Environmental Working Group）的研究報告也顯示，很多美國商店架上的化妝品都含有其他國家所禁止使用的化學物質。這些禁用的化學物質在美國販售，其中包括了隱形眼鏡藥水含有雙氧水、面膜中含有甲醛、洗髮精和潤膚乳含硒、染髮劑含醋酸鉛等。
環境工作小組原本準備在週四（10月4日）將調查結果在布魯塞爾舉行的會議中發表，然而他們卻和其他公共衛生組織、消費者與環保組織等團體一起被阻擋在會議之外。
As officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, and the cosmetics industry traveled to Europe to discuss regulatory obstacles to the cosmetics trade between countries, a nonprofit research organization released the results of a new investigation that found hundreds of cosmetics sold in the United States contain chemicals the industry itself has determined to be unsafe, even when used as directed.
Many of the cosmetic products on the shelves of U.S. stores contain chemicals that other countries have banned, the Environmental Working Group, EWG, report shows.
These banned chemicals include hydrogen peroxide in contact lens cleaners sold in the United States, formaldehyde in mascara, selenium in shampoo and moisturizer, and lead acetate in hair coloring.
The EWG was prepared to present the results of its investigation to the meeting held Thursday in Brussels, but was excluded from that meeting along with all public health, consumer and environmental organizations.
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