L'Oreal R&D: French firm's Emerging Color Technologies Manager Laurent Vidal calls the firm'sTrue Match makeup line - designed "to precisely match your skin's tone and texture" - L'Oreal's biggest innovation in the last five years. "It's a big success," he said Oct. 20 at IntertechPira's Future of Pigments & Color Cosmetics 2010 conference in Newark, N.J., in a seminar titled "Emerging Color Technologies." Innovative materials on his radar for future experimentation include carbon nanotubes (known for their strength and unique electrical properties and efficient thermal conductors), quantum dots (also known as nanocrystals) and optical camouflage (presumably as a mechanism for concealing flaws). The firm spends an average of five years developing a new technology prior to commercialization of a product, Vidal said. L'Oreal spent €609 million on research and development last year, an increase of 3.7% over 2008. The firm filed around 678 patents in 2009, adding to roughly 20,000 on the books
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
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Explaining he was a heroin addict for 14 years more than 40 years ago “because it was so available,” Secretary Kennedy says “our agencies have been asleep in the wheel” but “now we're going to wake up and we're going to start to stop this before it starts.”
HBW Insight speaks to Prime Fifty founder and managing director Max Gowland about the science behind healthy aging and the opportunity for the consumer health industry.
“We cannot ignore how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the FDA ability to evaluate new drugs,” says California’s Nanette Diaz Barragán of California during Energy and Comme e markup discussion of five-year reauthorization of FDA’s OMUFA.
