GERMAN COSMETICS WITHDRAWN FROM SALE SAYS RAPEX
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) consumer protection alert service RAPEX has warned two German cosmetic products have been withdrawn from sale in Europe. One was hand-washing paste 'Der Spezialist Walter', recalled by the distributor in Lithuania for posing "a microbiological risk because it has a total bacteria count of 8.2 x 106 CFU/g of Pseudomonas aeruginosa". The other was 'Biller's naturkosmetik' cosmetic cream, withdrawn from the Austrian market by consumer protection authorities for containing chemical preservative methyldibromo ...
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