The Personal Care Products Council maintains enthusiastic support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which it says will bolster the US cosmetics industry by reducing the costs and burden of trade overseas. The deal involving the US and 11 other countries was finalized in October following more than five years of negotiations and now awaits an up-or-down vote from Congress.
The Personal Care Products Council maintains that cosmetic exports from the US would increase as a result of reduced costs and regulatory convergence under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which awaits the congressional vote needed for its ratification in the states.
At a US International Trade Commission hearing on the pact Jan. 11, PCPC's Executive Vice President of Global Strategies Francine Lamoriello reaffirmed the group's support for the historic trade deal,...
Result of firms marketing weight loss products to Black and Latino girls and to lower-income households is to “worsen health inequities by gender, race, ethnicity and income,” says Harvard researcher Bryn Austin, director of Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders.
The US FDA’s 20 May expert panel on talc discussed science behind the potential carcinogenicity of the cosmetic, food and drug ingredient, the importance of ‘good science’ in evaluating the substance and the need to find alternatives in each industry.
Ahead of a soon to be released 10-Year Health Plan for the English NHS, an alliance including PAGB calls for self-care to be “clearly recognised and supported through concrete policies that reflect its vital role in achieving the plan’s goals.”
