Abu Dhabi is free of cancer-causing shampoos

The Abu Dhabi Council for Quality and Conformity confirmed that cosmetics and personal care products from the shampoo of one of the world famous brands that have been withdrawn from the local markets in the United States of America for causing cancerous diseases are not traded and not available for sale in the local markets in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

The Food and Drug Administration in the United States of America had announced a warning against some cosmetic and personal care products that contain aerosols due to their content of carcinogenic benzene.

Director of the Business Development and Customer Happiness Department at the council, Sultan Al Muhairi, explained that the market and consumer services sector in the council is keen to follow up and monitor cases of withdrawal of commercial products from regional and global markets through internationally approved electronic monitoring platforms so that the necessary measures are taken in this regard by withdrawing them from local markets in coordination and cooperation with the product agent in The state.

He said that after monitoring the withdrawal of the product in the United States of America, coordination in this regard was immediately taken place and a meeting with the company (Unilever PIC), the exclusive agent of the brand in the region of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, to ensure that famous commercial products of dry air shampoo were withdrawn from the markets and outlets of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, including Electronic platforms, as it was found that they are not circulated in the local markets.

He stressed that Unilever, the exclusive agent for the product's brand, addressed the major electronic sales platforms to remove these products from their platforms and demanded its management to communicate with consumers from the UAE who purchased any of these products to retrieve and return them and warn them against using them.

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