Global Biodiversity Pact’s Potential Impact On Personal Care Still Unclear
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Six months after the adoption of the Nagoya Protocol – an international treaty conceived to help ensure fairness in the way genetic resources are mined for research and development purposes – the extent to which the personal-care industry will be impacted is still not entirely clear.
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