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http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2001112600223.html

 

Cosmetics go farm-animal free

 

The Asahi Shimbun

 

Concern about mad cow disease is forcing cosmetics

manufacturers to switch from farm animal-based

compounds to ingredients derived from fish or plants.

 

Japan's leading cosmetics manufacturer Shiseido Co.

plans to extend restrictions on the use of some

beef-based ingredients to cover all farm animal

materials, including pig or chicken products.

 

Cosmetics manufacturers first began cutting back on

beef products last December when the government issued

a directive banning the use of any ingredients derived

from cow placentas.

 

That forced Shiseido to replace beef-derived collagen

with fish products.

 

Shiseido now says that it plans to root out any farm

animal-based compounds from products, and replace them

with ingredients taken either from fish or plants.

Materials of which the ingredient or country of origin

is unclear will also be replaced.

 

Kanebo Ltd., another leading cosmetics manufacturer,

is under pressure to follow suit.

 

After last December's directive, Kanebo stopped using

materials derived from cow placentas in its

skin-whitening product, switching to a combination of

pig placenta derivative and vitamin C instead. Now it

is considering using just vitamin C.

 

``We don't think it's dangerous,'' a Kanebo

spokesperson said. ``But consumer pressure is

mounting.''

 

The Japan Cosmetic Industry Association warned,

however, that complicated distribution channels for

raw materials sometimes make it difficult to tell

whether a raw material is derived from animals or

plants.

 

(11/26)

 

 

 

 

 

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