Natural/Organic Standards Organizations Talk Harmonization At Summit
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
At the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in New York, representatives from organic and/or natural personal-care standards organizations compared criteria and called for harmonization to dispel consumer confusion
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