Korean talc asbestos scare
By Mike O'Driscoll
Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Authority under fire bans cosmetic and pharmaceutical talc-containing products
South
Korea’s cosmetics
and pharmaceutical industries are suffering the fall-out from
public anger and an authority’s response, already deemed
an overreaction, to a perceived concern of asbestos-containing
talc being used in certain products.
The upshot is that some 1,122 cosmetic and drug items
(including baby powders...