GSK's proposed usage for mouth spray product – reducing withdrawal symptoms, including nicotine craving – differs little from the first NRT product approved in US in 1984. Additional suggested label instructions primarily focus on stating NRTs can be used to reduce smoking or gradually stop tobacco use as opposed to quitting within a specified amount of time.

Marina Karp joins CHPA as its first director of health policy; UFC welterweight Colby Covington signs on with Cannafornia CBD; "body activist" Ashley Graham is an Olly Nutrition brand ambassador; and Pink's husband, Carey Hart, inspires Next Green Wave's CBD line.

Attorneys are warning CBD product marketers to be on guard for litigation challenging the authenticity of their claims, the safety of their products and other aspects of their businesses. So far, suits of this nature have been limited in the US, but the few known cases could be harbingers of a larger wave to come.

UK's Advertising Standards Authority tells Cambridge Chocolate to halt ad claims for Esthechoc functional chocolate after firm fails to sway experts with multiple studies on astaxanthin and epicatechins, ingredients in chocolate it says science has shown have a beneficial impact on skin.

Launches announced in August include Clarisonic Mia Men, the brand’s first cleansing device specifically engineered for men’s thicker skin and beard, and Act Of Being, touted as “America’s first 100% vegan men’s grooming and skin-care brand.” Fragrances from Ariana Grande and Vince Camuto debut, along with Moroccanoil Color Depositing Masks and Avon Products’ True 5-in-1 Lash Genius mascara.

Currently, representations on product labels dictate the levels of VOC content they are permitted to contain under the California Air Resources Board’s consumer products regulations. In its drive to tighten VOC limits, the agency is considering a change that would make online statements additional controlling factors for VOC categorization, one of several moves the personal-care industry aims to discourage.

Personal Care Products Council exec Tom Myers says it’s crucial that industry be involved now, ahead of proposed rulemaking expected from California’s “clean air agency” in 2020, to inform the Air Resources Board about reformulation challenges and opportunities to reduce levels of volatile organic compounds in line with state goals.

Hairburst’s hair-growth and hair-loss prevention claims on cosmetic products are inadequately substantiated, and many of the health claims it uses to promote food supplements are unauthorized, the Advertising Standards Authority says in a 14 Aug. decision.

Attorneys are warning CBD product marketers to be on guard for litigation challenging the authenticity of their claims, the safety of their products and other aspects of their businesses. So far, suits of this nature have been limited in the US, but the few known cases could be harbingers of a larger wave to come.

UK's Advertising Standards Authority tells Cambridge Chocolate to halt ad claims for Esthechoc functional chocolate after firm fails to sway experts with multiple studies on astaxanthin and epicatechins, ingredients in chocolate it says science has shown have a beneficial impact on skin.

On International Self-Care Day, HBW Insight speaks exclusively to Alan Main, chairman of the Global Self-Care Federation and executive vice-president of Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, about the growing importance of self-care and the increasingly vital role it plays in sustaining and sustainable healthcare systems.