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The ANSM has just published its Activity Report for the Year 2017, with some key figures on cosmetics products.
• Cosmetovigilance: 234 reports were processed by the ANSM (compared to 238 in 2016): almost half of them were classified as serious.
• 33 inspections were carried out in the field of cosmetics products.
• 9 manufacturers received an an injunction to ensure conformity.
• 1 health police decision has been taken.
To go further
• Consult the complete 2017 ANSM Activity Report.

According to an RFI survey, South Korean men are the world’s biggest consumers of cosmetic products, and in astonishing ways. It is often during their military service that they discover the delights and benefits of skin creams, moisturizing masks, and other BB creams.
• Read the article on RFI’s website

“Despite their promises to stop buying palm oil from companies with practices that destroy tropical forests, the world’s leading brands have in fact not changed their practices,” Greenpeace says in a recent report entitled “The Final Countdown”. The association denounces major food and cosmetics brands such as “Kit-Kat (Nestlé), Colgate toothpaste (Colgate-Palmolive), Dove products (Unilever), Doritos chips (PepsiCo), M&M’s (Mars) and Head & Shoulders shampoo (Procter & Gamble) manufacturers.” These brands are targeted to source palm oil from producers responsible for deforestation and human rights violations.
To go further
• See the Greenpeace website

The import and sale of cosmetic products for which animal tests have been performed during development are to be banned in California. The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, SB 1249 was unanimously passed by the California Senate on August 30, 2018. Once signed by the Governor of the State, this provision is expected to come into force on 1st January 2020.

With its mobile application “Y’a quoi dedans” (What’s in it), the Système U group joins the clan, how trendy, of analyses of ingredient lists All you have to do is scan the barcode of a product to find out if it contains undesirable substances or not. The application takes all its documentation from the free Open Food Fact database (which lists approximately 374,000 products in France), as do other food decoding tools. “Y’a quoi dedans” is still in its infancy and will probably be enriched in the near future. It may become collaborative. For the time being, this application targets only foodstuffs, but in the long term, it will also focus on non-consumable products and cosmetics.
This is the first time a distributor has decided to develop such a tool.

Marc-antoine Jamet, General Secretary of LVMH and President of the Cosmetic Valley, to give a two-hour interview to the members of the CEW on September 11, 2018, from 6 to 8 pm. A donation of 25 euros, in favour of the beauty centres, is requested from each participant.
There is still time to register !

To go further
• Go to the CEW website