Leading personal-care firms, mega-retailers Target and Walmart and entities from the NGO and regulatory arenas have lined up to sponsor the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council’s preservative innovation competition, now tentatively slated to kick off in April 2017. GC3’s Co-Director Monica Becker provides an update on the project, which she suggested has received unprecedented sponsor support.
The Green Chemistry and Commerce Council is “cautiously optimistic” that promising preservative innovations will emerge from a competition now slated to launch in 2017 with enthusiastic backing from leading cosmetics and household product industry players.
“We’re trying to find a number of promising early-stage ideas that, with some effort, could be developed and brought forward as good new technologies going forward,” said Monica Becker, GC3’s co-director and
US FDA Commissioner Martin Makary’s disavowal of a proposed reorganization plan may be an important turning point in the Trump Administration. The move does not improve the situation, but may mean the administration stops actively making things worse.
C&D reports Q1 net sales dropped 2.4% to $1.48bn, below its guidance for around 1% growth. Its brands’ sales at retail and market share grew in the quarter, but “experienced slowing category growth in the US market” as retailers reduced inventory levels.
Herbalife expects little impact from increased tariffs on imports from China but strong boosts from acquiring Pro2col Health and Pruvit Ventures Inc. and 51% ownership of Link BioSciences.
