Cosmetics & Personal Care

• Counterfeit perfume production site busted in Italy

  23-Jun-21 - The organised criminal gang is estimated to have made around €15,000 per month from the illegal activity.

• Russia's Chestny ZNAK offers prizes for scanning codes

  23-Jun-21 - Russia tries to boost scanning rates for its product coding system by offering a 1m-rouble jackpot to consumers.

• Bill would boost FDA powers on risky personal care products

  21-Jun-21 - The Personal Care Products Safety Act would give the FDA the authority to seize counterfeit cosmetic products.

• One in 10 EU consumers bought fakes in 2020; report

  20-Jun-21 - Another third of Europeans wondered whether a product they had bought was original, according to the EUIPO study.

• Women arrested on falsified Botox, Juvederm charges

  18-Jun-21 - Josefa Acosta was taken into custody last month on charges of furnishing prescription drugs without a license.

• One in five consumers bought fake cosmetics online last year

  15-Jun-21 - The same proportion said they would also stop shopping with the brand if they were to unintentionally buy a counterfeit.

• US operation intercepts hundreds of illegal medicine shipments

  31-May-21 - COVID-19 medicines and test kits, drugs for other diseases, medical devices and beauty products were seized.

• Dubai nabs fake shipment of Unilever's Vaseline

  20-May-21 - Shipment of 17,280 counterfeit packs of Unilever's big-selling petroleum jelly product was worth around $109,000.

• Honeywell trials digital authentication for PPE

  17-May-21 - To authenticate the product, the end user scans a digital code embedded in the packaging with their smartphone camera.

• Counterfeit cosmetics banned by Chinese regulators

  13-May-21 - The authorities in China have introduced a ban on a cosmetic product that after an investigation appears to be fake.

• Counterfeiters turning attention to smaller businesses, says study

  29-Apr-21 - Four out of every five small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) suffer from counterfeits and brand abuse on the Internet.

• 25,000 counterfeit 3M masks seized in Scotland

  26-Apr-21 - Operation was prompted by intelligence that the counterfeit face masks were coming into the UK from Hong Kong.

• EMEA cargo thefts high despite pandemic lockdown

  23-Apr-21 - Despite COVID-19 lockdowns, thefts approached record levels and were likely an underestimate, says TAPA.

• New chair at VerifyMe as Norman Gardner retires

  23-Apr-21 - Norman Gardner has stepped down as chair of VerifyMe, and will be replaced by GPX' Scott Greenberg.

• Fake Alcon contact lens seller fined by UK court

  21-Apr-21 - Zahra Gillani bought the lenses from Alibaba for $1.75 per pair, and sold them on via a Facebook page for £15.

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