Health Alert : Shampoo and cologne with toxic substances withdrawn from sale

The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Health Products (Aemps) has announced the cessation of marketing and the withdrawal from the market of all units of two cosmetics marketed by the company Mayfer Perfumes SL, according to an announcement by the consumer organization Facua.

Specifically, it is Eau de toilette Hugs 100 ml spray and Anti-Dandruff Shampoo 400 ml. The public body already warned in October 2022 of the provisional measures on these products for containing the banned substance. butylphenyl methylpropional, included in Annex II of Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 on cosmetic products.

Precautionary measures

Now, the Director General of Management, Pharmacy and Inspection of the Ministry of Health of the Government of Cantabria has decided to maintain the precautionary measures adopted to cease the commercialization and of use and of immobilization and withdrawal from the market of all units of these two cosmetic products.

The products were detected in the development of the national cosmetics market control campaign 2022 “CMR Substances in Cosmetic Products”.