FRENCH CONSUMER AUTHORITIES WARN ABOUT DANGEROUS COSMETICS
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRENCH consumer authorities have seized five potentially dangerous cosmetics made in the Ivory Coast, said European Union's (EU) rapid consumer alert service RAPEX. These were three G&G branded 'Dynamiclair' skin lighteners; a Dawny branded 'lightening, anti-blemish beauty oil'; and L'Abidjanaise skin-lightening cream. The G&G and Dawny products were seized for containing clobetasol propionate, banned under the EU cosmetics directive. The L'Abidjanaise was seized for containing 7.1% hydroquinone as a skin-whitening agent, which "can ...
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