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FDA To Lancome: If Your Creams Stimulate Stem Cells Or Whatever, They're Actually Drugs

FDA To Lancome: If Your Creams Stimulate Stem Cells Or Whatever, They're Actually Drugs

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates both cosmetics and drugs, but they’re not the same thing. The distinction is that drugs affect the structure of your body or the way it works, and cosmetics just make you look nicer. It’s the difference between a tube of mascara and a prescription of Latisse. Try telling that to Lancôme, though. The FDA happened to stop by the company’s website one day, and noticed that the company makes some claims that make their products sound less like cosmetics, and more like drugs. [More]

Legislator Calls For Ban On Imaginary Practice Of Using Aborted Fetuses In Food Products

Legislator Calls For Ban On Imaginary Practice Of Using Aborted Fetuses In Food Products

Because the lawmakers of this nation don’t have real-world issues that need to be resolved, a state senator in Oklahoma has introduced legislation that would finally put a stop to the abominable, completely nonexistent practice of using tissue from aborted fetuses in food. [More]