Grossly inadequate official monitoring of the importation of beauty care products believed to be harmful to users’ health continue to undermine what a source in the beauty care industry has told the Stabroek Business is the likely continued exposure of users to likely longer term ‘health issues’. Efforts to stem the inflow of these products in contravention of advisories from the Government Analyst-Food and Drugs Department (GAFDD), is a reflection of the fact that there is no obvious actual enforcement mechanism to lend weight to the advisories issued by the GAFDD, the source told this newspaper.
