Seven years after California’s Safe Cosmetics Act went into force, the state’s public health department issues a searchable database of what it deems potentially hazardous cosmetic ingredients, as well as products on the market that contain them. PCPC faults the tool for providing raw data without meaningful context.
The California Department of Public Health’s new database allows consumers to search for specific cosmetic products, product categories, chemicals or company/brand names to see if items in their personal-care regimens contain ingredients linked to cancer or reproductive harm.
The California Safe Cosmetics Program Product Database was mandated by the state’s Safe Cosmetics Act of 2005, and its debut...
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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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Representing about a fifth of all licensed medicines in the UK, OTCs are considered a critical part of the country's health system, according to a recently published Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) paper on UK medicines supply issues.
Limits so effective that states are relaxing restrictions they previously set exceeding the nationwide limit Congress imposed in Combat Meth Act in 2006 on the amount of PSE, as well as a second meth precursor, ephedrine, in OTC drugs consumers can purchase daily.
P&G appoints long-time company executive Freddy Bharucha to lead its global Personal Care business, while the Estee Lauder Companies creates a new chief digital and marketing officer role.
