Artificial Nail Set with Toxic Glue Banned in Romania, Sold in the Philippines (EcoWaste Coalition Warns against Use of Toxic Adhesive for Artificial Nails)
The EcoWaste
Coalition has cautioned consumers against purchase and use of an artificial
nail kit with a matching adhesive that Romania, a country in Europe, recently
banned to protect human health.
The said brand
of artificial nails is also sold locally, the group warned.
According to
the Romanian advisory as published in the European Union Rapid Alert System for
dangerous non-food products, the DBP on the nail glue “may harm the health,
causing possible damage to the reproductive system or the unborn child.”
“We remind
consumers to be cautious when purchasing cosmetic products, especially items
lacking market authorization such as artificial nails that are supplied with
glue containing toxic DBP,” said Thony Dizon, Chemical Safety Campaigner,
EcoWaste Coalition. “We appeal to
manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers to only offer safe products
that will not pose risks to human health and the environment.”
Aside from
Xucai, EcoWaste Coalition’s market monitoring shows that artificial nail sets
bearing the names Children Manicure, Dudustrong, Elegant Touch, Fashion,
Losnaglar, Nail Salons, Opoola, Rose, Skeyelinl and Yazimi are also supplied
with the said DBP-containing adhesive
and are sold up to P40 per set.
Last March 12,
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public health warning against
the purchase and use of the said unauthorized nail adhesive for artificial nails
that lacks a valid certificate of product notification.
As per Advisory
2021-0541, “since the abovementioned unauthorized cosmetic product has not gone
through the notification process of the FDA, the agency cannot assure their
quality and safety. The use of such violative product may pose health risks to
consumers.”
In another
advisory, the FDA warned that the said nail adhesive, which lists DBP among its
ingredients, “has the ability to cause allergic reactions.”
According to
Advisory 2015-006, “there were previous cases where allergic response to DBP
was found to be severe,” saying that “allergic reactions can induce a state of
hypersensitivity in the immune system.”
“It can cause
the immune system to respond to chemical exposures with immunological reactions
that are harmful, varying from hives to life threatening responses such as
anaphylactic shock, where low blood pressure and breathing difficulties can
result in death,” the advisory read.
DBP is a banned
ingredient as per Annex II, Part I of the ASEAN Cosmetic Directive, which
provides a list of substances that "must not form part of the composition
of cosmetic products."
Reference:
https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10003506
https://www.fda.gov.ph/fda-advisory-no-2021-0541-public-health-warning-against-the-purchase-and-use-of-unauthorized-cosmetic-nail-adhesive/
https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10003506
https://www.fda.gov.ph/fda-advisory-no-2021-0541-public-health-warning-against-the-purchase-and-use-of-unauthorized-cosmetic-nail-adhesive/
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