Pentasodium Pentetate

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Pentasodium Pentetate functions as chelating agent in cosmetics, although it is mostly used in hair dyes and colors.

Sources of Exposure: Cosmetics, hair dyes

Health Impacts: The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel has reviewed EDTA and its salts, which are structurally similar to Pentasodium Pentetate and are used as chelating agents in cosmetics.  EDTA and its salts are cytotoxic and weakly genotoxic, but not carcinogenic. Oral exposures to EDTA produced adverse reproductive and developmental effects in animals.

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