Crackdown on unsafe cosmetics ordered

LAHORE:Announcing zero-tolerance for hazardous cosmetics and unauthorised operations for enhancing human beauty, the Punjab government has decided to launch a crackdown on such practices.

Punjab Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare Dr Jamal Nasir disclosed this during a press conference here on Friday. Special teams comprising the staff of the Punjab Healthcare Commission as well as Drug Control Directorate of Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department, Punjab, are being set up for launching the crackdown on hazardous cosmetics and non-qualified practitioners administering beauty injections or running aesthetic clinics for any type of surgeries.

Drug control staff will determine the registration or otherwise of these beauty creams and cosmetics while the professionals of Healthcare Commission will review clinical practice at these places, he added.