Update: Arizona accuses L’Oréal of concealing cancer risks linked to hair relaxers

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The available account reports that democratic attorney general seeks damages and penalties in legal action that echoes thousands of similar suits Arizona has sued L’Oréal that the French cosmetics company hid evidence that its hair relaxer products ⁠could cause cancer in women – echoing thousands of similar lawsuits from users and their families. The report also notes that Arizona attorney general Kristin Mayes , a ⁠Democrat, filed the lawsuit late ⁠on Thursday in ​state court. The lawsuit makes Arizona the first state to sue over alleged cancer risks linked to hair relaxers. It also alleges that L’Oréal is violating ⁠state consumer protection laws by marketing the hair relaxer products that are used predominantly by African American women without warning consumers about the alleged risks of ovarian and uterine cancers.

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