PORTUGAL CONTINUES CRACK-DOWN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL COSMETICS
November 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PORTUGUESE authorities have clamped down on personal care products they regard as potentially harmful for a second month running, European Union (EU) consumer warning network RAPEX has reported. Action was taken against eight products in October, including customs seizures and sales ban. These included six skin lightening products from the Ivory Coast and six from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All were found to contain ingredients breaching the EU cosmetics directive.
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PORTUGUESE authorities have clamped down on personal care products they regard as potentially harmful for a second month running, European Union (EU) consumer warning network RAPEX has reported. Action was taken against eight products in October, including customs seizures and sales ban. These included six skin lightening products from the Ivory Coast and six from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. All were found to contain ingredients breaching the EU cosmetics directive.
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