US warns L'Oreal over anti-aging cream marketing(philstar.com)
September 12, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning cosmetics maker L'Oreal SA that its website for Genefique exaggerates the benefits of the skin cream, portraying it as a drug with medical properties.
The agency issued a warning letter Friday to the company's Lancome unit, which markets Genefique Youth Activating Concentrate and similar anti-wrinkle cosmetics. The letter was posted to FDA's website Tuesday.
Lancome claims Genefique "boosts the activity of genes" and contains special ingredients that "stimulate cell regeneration to reconstruct skin to a denser quality."
The agency says only drug products are allowed to make such claims, and Lancome has not submitted necessary data to market its product as a drug.
The letter instructs the company to respond to regulators in 15 business days with a plan for correcting the language.
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