Cosmetics & Personal Care

• Fraud 'blindness' is rampant in businesses and organisations

  10-Dec-16 - Many firms are blind to fraud and an industry of fraud specialists is emerging to profit from the situation.

• CAIT issues anti-counterfeit recommendations

  06-Dec-16 - Businesses, public authorities and regulators should work together in developing anti- counterfeit approaches.

• 2016's Operation In Our Sites website cull widens

  30-Nov-16 - International enforcement agencies have taken down 4,500 domain names selling counterfeit goods.

• Goods tracking tech increasingly used to thwart cargo theft

  29-Nov-16 - The market for tracking technologies for cargo will grow by $2bn in the next five years to reach $5.6bn.

• Vitamin maker Blackmores taps YPB's anti-counterfeit tech

  21-Nov-16 - YPB has added vitamin and supplements manufacturer Blackmores to its anti-counterfeit customers.

• Groupon caught selling fake goods, BBC probe reveals

  17-Nov-16 - Discount deal website Groupon has been found to be selling fake products online, says BBC Watchdog.

• Scotland organised crime crackdown warns of links with counterfeits

  08-Nov-16 - Almost £7m of fake cigarettes, clothing and cosmetics were seized last year in Scotland.

• Watch out for fake contact lenses, warn US authorities

  26-Oct-16 - With Halloween approaching, US authorities are warning the public to beware of counterfeit and decorative contact lenses.

• Calls for Alibaba to be relisted as a 'notorious market'

  12-Oct-16 - A retail trade group has called for Alibaba to be relisted as a "notorious market" for selling fake goods.

• Notorious train robber locked up for second time

  05-Oct-16 - The ringleader of a cargo theft network in New Jersey, US, ihas been sentenced to eight years in prison.

• Brazil, Venezuela and Germany head cargo theft league in 2015

  20-Sep-16 - Brazil topped the list of countries suffering from heightened cargo theft risks in 2015, says supply chain specialist BSI.

• US man pleads guilty to selling fake contact lenses

  12-Sep-16 - A Las Vegas man has admitted selling counterfeit coloured contact lenses to unsuspecting customers.

• Amazon, eBay and Alibaba slammed again for fake listings

  17-Aug-16 - Consumer group accuses online retailers and social media sites of 'making it easy for counterfeiters'.

• Reports abound of fake Jeffree Star cosmetics

  14-Aug-16 - Jeffree Star has warned fake versions of his lipsticks are being sold online and could be hazardous.

• Quantum dot firm UbiQD bags US anti-counterfeit patent

  10-Aug-16 - US start-up UbiQD has been awarded a US patent on the use of its quantum dots in anti-counterfeit inks.

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