Taiwan toxic plasticizer storm not only spread to the five categories of food, now the female common Nail Polish, cosmetics such as lipstick, perfume, hair spray, latex may also be affected.
Cosmetics industry veteran said illegal additives phenomenon prevalent in many low-end cosmetics. Because Taiwan one of the pharmaceutical industry insiders claimed, some bad operators in Nail Polish, perfumes, cosmetics such as lipstick, also using plasticizer.
On May 30, the Taiwan authorities on cosmetic shop inspection, lipstick, Nail Polish, perfume, lotion, cream, powder products such as cleaning products, hair spray sample, bring back Health Board laboratory.
Announcement of the test results while not yet, but the Taiwan Health Department three years ago, under banning cosmetic use of DEHP plasticizer. Taiwan plasticizer of storms will spread to the mainland China cosmetic market? yashilandai (China) reporter told the business daily: "we are in the United States, Europe, Japan, are very harsh on the control of raw materials and imports to China not only to meet the producers of health inspection standards, also imports to China's tests. "A big local skin care product production in Jiangsu Province enterprise research and Development Department told reporters that, in relation to skin care, in the formal product formula, and normally does not add these components, because there is no effect, but does not rule out some of the flavor and fragrance suppliers will be added.
Journalists contact us at Nanjing and Shanghai several flavors and fragrances businesses in China, but as of the release has not received a positive reply. "Illegal additives in the Mainland in many low-end cosmetics are present.
"One engaged in cosmetics industry in Sichuan province in recent 10 years in the industry, stone told reporters, adding of phthalic acid ester and adding the most common compared to regular emulsifier, cheaper cost of phthalic acid esters at least 30%, may be many small and medium-sized cosmetics manufacturing business is in troubled waters in order to reduce costs. According to our experts of Feng Jianjun revealed that at present more than cosmetics production enterprises on the mainland about more than 5,000, with annual sales in the $ 50 million the following medium and small cosmetics enterprises, about 90% of total cosmetics enterprises. Previously, in early March this year, consumer associations on the local market in Guangzhou City shampoo, bath agent, whiten on four types of daily chemical products, lipstick, a sample of the quality of products, bath agent and whitening products found to be not compliance is more serious.
By the Guangzhou beauty cosmetics factory production of whitening products Akita show h ointment, 1903.4mg/kg of mercury content, is the upper bound of the index provided 1903 times. "Nail Polish, skin care products contain illegal additives such as similar things we had also occurred. "Mr Stone said. In his view, China is now the cosmetics testing standard is relatively low, even some standard is continually being updated, but on the enforcement is not scientific enough, form of cosmetics are now submitted, almost equivalent to for cosmetics companies with their own conscience to control product quality.
