Overlord n-dioxin affair shall inform at the national administration of quality supervision, content does not seem to come after consumer health hazards.
However, consumers on the discussion of the event and not the end.
On June 17, the ormal enactment of the consumer goods in China use cosmetics of common tag, provides all the People's Republic of China domestic production or import inspection and sales in the territory of domestic and imported cosmetics are need to truly mark on product packaging products join the names of all the components in the formula.
The banner of "Chinese medicine family" banner has been billed as the overlord of Chinese herbs shampoo, in advertising, it has been claimed to be herbal medicine, describes the implied risk does not, and mark, was forced to explain only after they have been exposed.
If contains "technically unavoidable, containing natural residue caused by trace" dioxan, why not make it clear? just like cigarettes contain nicotine may cause cancer, consumers are informed, smoking or not is a personal choice, the public will not panic.
Because policy gives a buffer period, many are sold daily chemical products on the market, does not fully implement the provisions of marking all of the components, coupled with our emphasis on sales and profit of enterprise, naturally consumers right to know "shelved". The King said in a statement, "no deliberately adding dioxin-n-hexane as a raw material in a product. It's just a by-product of the production process, by the use of raw materials, or other factors, and technically unavoidable, containing natural residue caused by trace. "Experts say, n-Chinese herbal medicine itself does not contain dioxin, but extraction of traditional Chinese medicine, used primarily by organic extraction, which uses to organic substances such as ethanol, propanol, dioxan mainly in both produced during extraction.
But this is not inevitable, shampoo on technology enterprises can avoid such harmful substances into cosmetics.
Industry insiders said, dioxan-containing surfactant (AES) is not irreplaceable, there are already new surfactant can achieve better results, but prices would cost 4 to 5 times times, so many of our enterprise for cost reasons, do not want to use this alternative raw materials. Fighter group 2009 annual report as at December 31, 2009 revealed that its 2009 initial public offering of net amount granted for $ 1.615 billion yuan, plans to use $ 485 million on marketing and promotion, expansion and strengthening of domestic and overseas distribution networks $ 290 million, design, research and new product development for $ 323 million, 41.67% of research and development costs as marketing expenses.
From July 2009 to December 2009, funding was provided for 399 million Yuan, with marketing and promotion costs $ 290 million, expansion and strengthening of domestic and overseas distribution network $ 9 million, and designing, research and new product development for $ 38 million, that is, actual research and development costs for marketing costs only 12.7%. Cosmetic detergents branch of China general merchandise business association Deputy Secretary General, Deputy Director of the Center for studies of Chinese cosmetics marketing Gu Jun said domestic daily business focus on marketing and more to build on the concept, rather than on research and development, which actually led to domestic chemical industry currently lingering at the low end of important reasons.
