RAPEX warns of spate of North American care product alerts
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.
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 OPI nail polish, seized in Germany for containing 6.3% dibutyl phthalate, another cosmetics directive violation. RAPEX also reported a German seizure of nail polish called Nail Art following identification of the same banned chemical, although its country of origin was not known.