Brands Settle With CEH, Will Make “Organic” Products COPA-Compliant

Products manufactured after March 31, 2012 under the Kiss My Face, derma e and Head Organics brands, plus eight others, must either contain a greater concentration of organic content or be labeled differently under settlements with the Center for Environmental Health, which is on a mission to ensure that California organic law is observed

A number of personal-care brands marketing products as “organic” in California must either elevate their organic content levels or change their labeling under a legal settlement with the Center for Environmental Health, announced Nov. 30.

CEH filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court in June against more than two dozen companies whose products it says violate California Organic Production Act of 2003, which requires “cosmetic products sold, labeled or represented as organic or made with organic ingredients [to] contain at least 70% organically produced ingredients” Also see "

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