EU COSMETIC INDUSTRY DATA PROVISION REVIEW
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has signaled a root-and-branch review of the 30-year-old EU cosmetics directive, which could force manufacturers into revealing more safety data.
Speaking at a recent 'cosmetics business summit' in Brussels, the German said: "We must ask ourselves a simple question: is the EU law for cosmetics today suited for the developments in this sector tomorrow?" He was particularly concerned about the lack of safety-data offered to the European Commission by the cosmetics industry. Said ...
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