GSCF World Congress: Environmental Sustainability In Consumer Health

The third session on day one of the GSCF's World Congress 2022 focused on sustainability and featured contributions from Haleon, Bayer, AESGP, and the UN.

For the consumer health industry, sustainability is an issue “we can’t ignore,” insisted Haleon’s chief marketing officer Tamara Rogers, at the beginning of the third session on day one of the 2022 Global Self-Care Federation World Congress.

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