product liability

Mitchum Recalls Products That Irritate Users’ Armpits

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I’m intrigued by the story about Mitchum having to recall some batches of their deodorant due to intense irritation affecting users. They have announced that the problem is caused by a change to the manufacturing method. I am at a loss to guess what kind of change that might be. The active in most deodorants is aluminium in various salt forms. Mitchum seems to use two – Aluminum Zirconium Tetrachlorohydrex Gly or Aluminum Chlorohydrate. The pH is quite important in this, but although that might be part of the issue I’d be very surprised indeed if someone had got the pH of the batches in question wrong. It’s about the easiest thing to measure and adjust.

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Changes To General Product Liability Regulations in EU and UK

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General Product Liability is a catchall term for anything that doesn’t have its own set of regulations. Cosmetics do, of course, have their own regulations. But a lot of cosmetic companies also make products that aren’t strictly cosmetics – things like scrubbing brushes, room sprays and false eyelashes, for a few cases. There are a few things that seem to be candidates to be cosmetics, medicines or nothing in particular.  Nobody seems to have worked out what intimate products are, for example – and I’ve seen them on the same shelf with different brands opting for different regulatory regimes. 

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