Assertion: toothpaste's microbead | /r/HasProperty | safe
Facets:
value: in toothpaste
type: LOCATION
value: completely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In August 2014 Crest announced that even though microbeads are “completely safe,” they would be phasing out their use, and all Crest products would be microbead-free by March 2016:
text: Taking the ingredient polyethylene (which is used to manufacture plastic microbeads) as an example, Proctor & Gamble, the parent company of Oral-B and Crest, did once state (before they were banned) on its ingredients page that ‘microbeads are safe for people and polyethylene is approved for use in some foods by the FDA.
text: And just because what we know now says these microbeads are safe in toothpaste, doesn’t mean that more research, time, & technology could prove that hypothesis totally wrong.
text: So even though the likes of Crest can argue that microbeads are ‘safe’ in their toothpaste, the secondary effect is that they pollute the environment.