China revised its cosmetics regulations last year to allow domestic ordinary-use cosmetic manufacturers to substantiate safety without use of animal tests, and in many cases the exemption is being extended to importers, according to Cruelty Free International's Director of Policy Nick Palmer. He says cosmetics that are bottled or packaged in the country are being considered domestics exempt from animal-testing requirements under a "liberal interpretation" of the regulation.
Foreign firms that complete the manufacturing process for their ordinary-use cosmetics in China or have an office in the country often are exempt from animal-testing requirements under the relaxed stance China FDA adopted last year for domestics, according to Cruelty Free International's Director of Policy Nick Palmer.
"For instance, if you manufacture in America but you have it bottled in China, that counts as Chinese-produced," he said in a Sept. 2 interview
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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At a recent plenary session the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to “conduct a new and comprehensive assessment” of the impact of the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive on the pharmaceutical sector.
MAC Cosmetics Appoints ‘Iconic’ Creative Director Nicola Formichetti as global creative director, while Revlon Consumer Products LLC partners with four-time GRAMMY-nominated artist, Ice Spice, in a “major step” in the revitalization of Revlon’s fragrance business.
NAD says Amazentis didn’t substantiate cellular performance and muscle function claims for its supplements containing proprietary ingredient Mitropure but provided “a sufficiently reliable and reasonable basis” for “clinically proven to revitalize mitochondria.”
