The national hygiene, cosmetics and specialty products industry body Accord Australasia has launched a new website in order to address consumer safety concerns when it comes to personal care and cleaning products.
The website, www.furphies.org.au, will help clarify misconceptions and myths about product safety.
Accord policy director Craig Brock says safety is the number-one concern for the industry, and is disappointed that the media gives too much attention to safety claims or reports that have little scientific or government agency support behind them.
"It’s often hard to sort fact from fiction when you are bombarded with negative stories in the media and can find so much misinformation on the Internet and throughout social media," says Brock.
That’s why Accord has developed the www.furphies.org.au website to help Australian consumers put many of the wildest safety claims they may hear or read about into perspective.”
