Cosmetics & Personal Care

• Canada warns over hazardous illegal hand sanitisers

  08-Feb-21 - Sanitisers and hard surface disinfectants sold by by Protegel Quebec and Hangel Canada may contain harmful chemicals.

• Mumbai police make five arrests over fake cosmetics

  06-Feb-21 - Fakes imported from China were hard to ditinguish from the genuine brand, says local media report.

• 3M wins injunction against Florida firm in fake masks case

  21-Jan-21 - Nationwide Source Inc is accused of cashing in on the pandemic by selling counterfeit face masks at inflated prices.

• Singapore scientists develop AI-based anti-counterfeit tech

  19-Jan-21 - Durable tags resist damage by environmental conditions and sidestep bottlenecks seen with other approaches, they say.

• Gulf of Guinea a piracy hotspot, says IMB

  18-Jan-21 - The Gulf of Guinea saw a spike in piracy incidents in 2020, accounting for 95 per cent of crew kidnappings.

• US natural products body seeks greater FDA effort on fakes

  11-Jan-21 - The FDA should step up the use of its authority to issue import alerts for fraudulent products, says NPA.

• Fake surgical, designer facemasks seized by US customs

  09-Jan-21 - Shipments of counterfeit surgical and designer face masks are intercepted in another example of pandemic-driven illicit trade.

• Law to curb anonymous companies is enacted in US

  05-Jan-21 - The legislation is designed to end the incorporation of anonymous shell companies used to launder criminal profits.

• House overturns Trump’s veto on anonymous US firms bill

  29-Dec-20 - Corporate Transparency Act is part of annual defense spending bill, and is due for a Senate vote today.

• After resolving fakes spat, Gucci opens stores on Alibaba’s Tmall

  23-Dec-20 - Gucci will launch two stores on Alibaba’s Tmall in a further sign that their pror battle over counterfeiting is resolved.

• Truck drivers say new EU rules will raise cargo crime risk

  21-Dec-20 - The new measures will cause cargo crime to increase due to an increase in unattended vehicles, says survey.

• Top e-commerce sites escape inclusion on EC’s piracy watch list

  17-Dec-20 - Commission says Alibaba, Amazon and eBay seem to have a problem with fakes, but have tried to tackle the issue.

• Fake cosmetics head Europol-led op shuttering 21,910 websites

  30-Nov-20 - Counterfeit items worth an estimated €2.5m ($3m) were seized, with perfume and cosmetics prominent.

• Egypt recalls falsified Betadine antiseptic

  25-Nov-20 - Two batches of the fake version of Mundipharma's disinfectant are involved in the recall, according to press reports.

• Surge in fakes on social media ahead of Black Friday

  20-Nov-20 - ACG says lockdowns could make exposure to counterfeit goods more acute this year as people shop more online.

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