Retailers in China are being advised to pull any cannabis-based cosmetics off the shelves after China’s drug regulator formally banned the use of cannabis compounds in cosmetics.
The European Parliament and Council of the European Union will meet this month and next to adopt final positions on the upcoming European Climate Law that targets climate neutrality by 2050 and a 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has launched a new strategy to take it up to 2026 with the aim of scaling up action across the entire cocoa supply chain in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, and building on lessons learned and progress made over the past five years to reach all children at risk by 2025.
International Cocoa Initiative launches new strategy to scale-up child monitoring impact By Anthony Myers The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has launched a new strategy to take it up to 2026 with the aim of scaling up action across the entire cocoa supply chain in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, and building on lessons learned and progress made over the past five years to reach all children at risk by 2025.
In its 2020 annual report, released this month, and marking the end of its 2015-2020 strategy, the organisation reveals that its work with its partners reached over 422,000 children in cocoa-growing communities
We have seen that interventions are working and we have seen real change for children and their families on the ground Nick Weatherill, ICI’s Executive Director
Formaldehyde has been banned in EU cosmetics since 2019 but formaldehyde releasers were still widely used and have to carry warning labels when formaldehyde concentrations are found above 0.05% in the final product [Getty Images] The European Commission’s Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS) has issued scientific advice to lower the threshold for warning labels on cosmetics containing formaldehyde releasing substances to better protect sensitised consumers.
Adopted on May 7, 2021, the
SCCS’s final Scientific Advice on formaldehyde labelling for cosmetics containing formaldehyde releasing substances concluded the current threshold of 0.05% was not low enough and must be reduced to 0.001% (10 ppm). And this lower threshold, it said, had to be applied to the total free formaldehyde, irrespective of whether a product contained one or more formaldehyde releaser(s).