RAPEX WARNS OF SPATE OF NORTH AMERICAN CARE PRODUCT ALERTS
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer alert network RAPEX has released a series of warnings about north American personal care products. Notably, it has told of seizures in Italy of a Canadian talcum powder called 'Spring Fresh' that contained arsenic, which is banned under the EU cosmetics directive. Meanwhile, Lithuania has issued a sales ban on US-made sun lotions 'Swedish beauty' and 'Ravishing' for containing cholecalciferol, also banned under the directive. Another American product falling foul of consumer authorities was 'O.P.I.' nail polish, ...
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