E-drug: Toxic UK skinlightning creams scar SA women (cont'd)
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Dear colleagues,
It is depressing to read that the trade in skin lighteners continues. It
took years of campaigning in the 1980s to close factories in Europe
which made products for export which contained mercury. Now skin
lightening creams contain excessive amounts of hydroquinone, and
who knows how many lives are being ruined.
I invite other E-Drug subscribers based in the UK to visit the Medicines
Control Agency with me after Christmas to raise this issue.
Philippa Saunders
Essential Drugs Project
77 Lee Road
Blackheath
London SE3 9EN
UK
tel/fax 44 (0)20 8318 1419
email: edp@gn.apc.org
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