Cosmetics & Personal Care

• Identifying fake perfume from the bottle, not the contents

  18-Jul-21 - Technique doesn't damage the bottle during testing, allowing those that are authentic to be placed back on sale.

• Cultural backgrounds influence counterfeit attitudes; study

  13-Jul-21 - Researchers examine counterfeit dominance, and how it affects Anglo-American and Asian attitudes to luxury brands.

• Markem-Imaje grows in authentication again with Blue Bite buy

  28-Jun-21 - Deal comes 18 months after Markem-Imaje agreed to buy serialization and authentication specialist Systech.

• OECD says fakes make up 2.5 per cent of global trade

  27-Jun-21 - Update to the highly cited figures show that the trade in counterfeit/pirated goods "has remained significant."

• 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.

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