Entries Tagged 'IFRA' ↓

IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has redesigned its website and it has an new look and at first glance seems easier to use, but there are annoying search problems. Since the site is the only place online to find out information on IFRA, t…

Continue reading → IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has redesigned its website and it has an new look and at first glance seems easier to use, but there are annoying search problems. Since the site is the only place online to find out information on IFRA, t…

Continue reading → IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has redesigned its website and it has an new look and at first glance seems easier to use, but there are annoying search problems. Since the site is the only place online to find out information on IFRA, t…

Continue reading → IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has redesigned its website and it has an new look and at first glance seems easier to use, but there are annoying search problems. Since the site is the only place online to find out information on IFRA, t…

Continue reading → IFRA website redesigned - Easier to find information, harder to use: here is a workaround

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…

Continue reading → Cropwatch Asks for your Input

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…

Continue reading → Cropwatch Asks for your Input

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…

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

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…

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

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…

Continue reading → Cropwatch Claims Victory and Presents Good Science

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…

Continue reading → Great reading on Cropwatch

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…

Continue reading → Cropwatch gets conference with European Union Cosmetics Commission

Ban on Citrus in Perfumes?

Cropwatch’s latest newsletter reports on the latest madness from bureaucracy run amok regarding perfume and fragrances. http://www.artisannaturalperfumers.org/news.htm You can download the pdf, all 18 pages of the strange, sad story.

Continue reading → Ban on Citrus in Perfumes?

Focusing on the Network to Protect Our Rights to Use Natural Products

Time for a break from blogging again. Time to network more with the people around the globe who are aghast at the bad science, bad attitude and outright bias that International Fragrance Association (IFRA) and also the European Union (EU) are exhibitin…

Continue reading → Focusing on the Network to Protect Our Rights to Use Natural Products

Scandalous! What are the IFRA spin doctors thinking? That they wouldn’t get caught?

I visited Robin’s blog Now Smell This today, as I do every day, and sharp-eyed Robin caught IFRA, the International Fragrance Association - now this is my word, not Robin’s - forcing - Cosmetics Design-Europe online magazine into rewriting history. I s…

Continue reading → Scandalous! What are the IFRA spin doctors thinking? That they wouldn’t get caught?

It’s the synthetics, stupid. (to quote an American political slogan”

Tony Burfield’s recent work challenging IFRA and the EU has forcedthem to show their hand, and here is the plain, awful truth, which Tony said all along was their agenda:http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=74667They’re insist…

Continue reading → It’s the synthetics, stupid. (to quote an American political slogan”

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…

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