COSMETICS INGREDIENT DIVERSION TO ILLICIT DRUG MANUFACTURERS MAY NEVER BE STOPPED
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
REAPPLYING perfume ten times a day may not count as an addiction, but the ingredients found in your favourite scent could certainly lead to one: cosmetic ingredients have been historically targeted by clandestine drug manufacturers as sources of chemicals used to produce illicit street drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines.
This diversion of chemicals into illicit drug manufacturing has happened for decades, sparking the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. The ongoing ...
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