UN PUSH ON SOAP USAGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
October 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
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A UNITED Nations campaign could - if successful - significantly increase worldwide demand for soap. Its Global Handwashing Day has highlighted how diarrhoeal and acute respiratory diseases kill 3.5 million children aged under five annually, and that washing their hands after using toilets and before handling food can reduce such deaths by 40% and 23% respectively.
CONSUMERS GROUP WARNS OF NANOPRODUCT BOOM AHEAD OF REGULATION
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THE EUROPEAN Consumers' Organisation (BEUC) has warned the number of personal care product incorporating ...
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