Recently, a survey of Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that substantial proportion of personal care products in China, such as cosmetics, perfume and other products, have been found to contain phthalate esters (PAEs), many of which are international brand name products. For the incident that cosmetic products may contain carcinogens, several journalists have tried to contact many cosmetics groups. Yang Yan, Director of the public relations department of Shiseido (China) Investment Co., Ltd, said, “we got to know the matter several months ago, but we will not accept media interview on this matter.” He Nana, Manager of the public relations department of Shanghai Jahwa, noted that “Jahwa is never one of those enterprises using PAEs.” In addition, the global perfume giant Coty Inc. and Unilever Group, Head of the daily chemical industry, gave no response to the event. The survey data shows the concentration of…
