ABC TV’s 7.30 program tonight will reveal Friends of the Earth’s findings of false non-nano claims made by many Australian sunscreen companies. Some of Australia’s biggest sunscreen brands are affected – including sunscreen products such as Cancer Council Classic,...
A complaint to the ACCC that Antaria Ltd has misrepresented a component of sunscreens that it manufactures and provides to third parties as being nano free.
In a critical first step to regulating nanomaterials, New Zealand’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made it compulsory to label for nanoscale ingredients in cosmetics. Which really begs the question, why can’t Australia? As the level of risk that...