Campaign For Safe Cosmetics To Keep Pushing For Product Reformulation In 2012
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Activist group the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics says its top accomplishment in 2011 was getting Johnson & Johnson to reformulate its baby-care products. In 2012, the NGO plans to increase its pressure on firms to reformulate products, removing ingredients it deems unsafe.
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