Toxic cosmetics: large seizure in Sassari, 4 reports
2,000 products recovered, including shampoos, lotions and deodorants, which contained substances harmful to healthA total of 2,000 products seized, with four reports. This is the result of the operation of the Guardia di Finanza in Sassari that discovered the presence in the capital of Turritano of thousands of toxic "cosmetics", harmful to health.
This is a wide range of everyday products including shampoos, lotions and deodorants, which contained in a mixture the toxic substance "Lilial" or Buthylphenyl Methylproptonal . The substance is listed as CMR, that is, linked to substances and preparations that are carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction and therefore prohibited.
The products were seized and four people were reported, legal representatives of the commercial activities, with the hypothesis of the crime of " trade of cosmetic products which, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, may be harmful to human health ".
