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Cropwatch Asks for your Input

CROPWATCH AT THE CROSSROADS - looking for your feedbacknote: if you wish to contact Tony about the questions below, you can write him at info@cropwatch.org After 4 or 5 years of continuous activity, Cropwatch has some choices to make. Do we go on t…

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Cropwatch Asks for your Input

CROPWATCH AT THE CROSSROADS - looking for your feedbacknote: if you wish to contact Tony about the questions below, you can write him at info@cropwatch.org After 4 or 5 years of continuous activity, Cropwatch has some choices to make. Do we go on t…

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Press Release: Natural Perfumers Guild and Cropwatch Oppose Limits on Citrus Oil Usage in Perfumery

Proposed Citrus Oil Limits in Perfumery opposed by The Natural Perfumers Guild and Cropwatch IFRA proposed citrus oil limits are cultural vandalism on the art of perfumery and are based on bad science, reports NPG and Cropwatch. For Immediate…

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The Natural Perfumers Guild joins Cropwatch in condemning IFRA’s “Cultural Vandalism”

Do you love a citrusy cologne? Are you sensible enough to perhaps cover up your skin where the cologne is applied if you receive a warning label on the bottle of perfume that sun exposure may cause blotchiness? Do you detest and resist government inter…

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Naturals again

Perfume Shrine has always been interested in the developments in the world of perfumery and one sector of that is the perfumers who dabble in Naturals. Much maligned in the past, yet increasingly acquited of accusations of a blinkered approach, it is r…

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Cropwatch Claims Victory and Presents Good Science

More Debunking of Bad Science from Tony Burfield of CropwatchI’ve known Natural Perfumers Guild member Tony Burfield of Cropwatch for about ten years now. We “met” in online forums on aromatherapy, where we, and many others were real “safety nuts.” All…

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A Little Extra Reading

In the comments section of the last Smelly facts post, the lovely Anya from Anya’s Garden and Z, from The Pinstriped Zebra were kind enough to provide some valuable extra information on the issue of Coumarin. Please take a look at this extra reading (links below) - the better informed we are, the better we can resist as well as inform others. Also, allow me to draw your attention to Cropwatch,

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Great reading on Cropwatch

Illustration for the article chosen for no reason other than its beauty - a bunch of blue lotus flowers.Bravo to Tony Burfield for waging a tough negotiation and getting two great copyrighted articles in this month’s Cropwatch newsletter. There is a ve…

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Cropwatch Challenges SCCP (Scientific Committee on Consumer Products) Stance on Tea Tree Oil

The Natural Perfumers Guild has partnered with Cropwatch in the past, most notably in early 2007, when the Guild joined them in challenging the adoption of IFRA’s (International Fragrance Association) 40th Amendment without public review or input. We f…

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Blog Action Day - spotlighting Slow Food and Cropwatch and how their efforts can help save our food and our fragrances

If it weren’t for our sense of smell, would would not be able to discern the food we put in our mouths. Our sense of smell makes it possible for us to taste our food. Our tastebuds help us discern salty, sour, sweet, bitter and umami. When purchasing t…

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Must Read: Toxicological Imperialism

Click here to read Cropwatch’s latest newsletter. The main issues continue to be the takeover of the fragrance industry by powerful regulatory bodies:1) Editorial Comment: Regulatory Nonesense - How Much Longer Do We Have To Endure Before Common Sense …

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Cropwatch gets conference with European Union Cosmetics Commission

For those of you who have been following this blog since January, when we first reported on Tony Burfield’s watchdog organization Cropwatch challenging the IFRA 40th Amendment, and the European Union regulation of natural aromatics, I am happy to repor…

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Tony Burfield’s Letter to IFRA regarding the petition and issues surrounding the 40th Amendment

1st March 2007Dear Sirs,Please find attached the petition posted up at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ifra40/http://www.cropwatch.org/40thpetition.htm.You will note that there are approx. 740 signatories to date, including perfumers, natural perfum…

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