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		<title>By: Hal Mayes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hal Mayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John,

I have checked in on this. We&#039;ve made the appropriate changes to comply with the EU. Thanks for the heads up!

H.M.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John,</p>
<p>I have checked in on this. We&#8217;ve made the appropriate changes to comply with the EU. Thanks for the heads up!</p>
<p>H.M.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Hal

I think this would be worth checking out to ensure your labeling applies to european requrements before you start applying your new labels on your products, otherwise it may cost you additional money if you have to change your wording further down the line to comply with european legislation.

Europe is to big a potential market to miss out on.

Regards

John</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Hal</p>
<p>I think this would be worth checking out to ensure your labeling applies to european requrements before you start applying your new labels on your products, otherwise it may cost you additional money if you have to change your wording further down the line to comply with european legislation.</p>
<p>Europe is to big a potential market to miss out on.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>John</p>
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		<title>By: Hal Mayes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hal Mayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John,

I think they will be compliant with European rules, but that&#039;s something I&#039;ll actually have to check on.

H.M.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John,</p>
<p>I think they will be compliant with European rules, but that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll actually have to check on.</p>
<p>H.M.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds good Hal

Will you be making sure your labeling complies with European rules.

Regards

John</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds good Hal</p>
<p>Will you be making sure your labeling complies with European rules.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>John</p>
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		<title>By: Hal Mayes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hal Mayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John,

Thanks for the suggestion. We&#039;re currently trying to figure out how to fit the &quot;plain english&quot; ingredients on our packaging. We can&#039;t just add the plain english words into the official ingredients listing because of how the FDA requires cosmetic ingredients to be displayed. You do see some manufacturers doing this, but it&#039;s technically against the rules, and recently the FDA is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/akFKqd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;paying a lot more attention&lt;/a&gt; to cosmetic manufacturers. So, we&#039;d have to find another spot on the packaging to put them. We&#039;re definitely going to have some sweet tools on our upcoming website for learning about ingredients though!

H.M.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John,</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion. We&#8217;re currently trying to figure out how to fit the &#8220;plain english&#8221; ingredients on our packaging. We can&#8217;t just add the plain english words into the official ingredients listing because of how the FDA requires cosmetic ingredients to be displayed. You do see some manufacturers doing this, but it&#8217;s technically against the rules, and recently the FDA is <a href="http://bit.ly/akFKqd" rel="nofollow">paying a lot more attention</a> to cosmetic manufacturers. So, we&#8217;d have to find another spot on the packaging to put them. We&#8217;re definitely going to have some sweet tools on our upcoming website for learning about ingredients though!</p>
<p>H.M.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just a suggestion Hal,

Might be a good idea to have the plain english name for each of the ingredients shown in brackets right after each of the &quot;funny FDA approved name&quot;. This would let potential customers see exactly what is in each product.

The suggestion will rely on your labels being large enough to accomodate all the extra text.

I always find it silly when regulatory bodies ask manufacturers to label their products with stupid names. How does this really help a consumer when they do not understand the &quot;non plain english description&quot;.

Keep up the great products.

Regards

John</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a suggestion Hal,</p>
<p>Might be a good idea to have the plain english name for each of the ingredients shown in brackets right after each of the &#8220;funny FDA approved name&#8221;. This would let potential customers see exactly what is in each product.</p>
<p>The suggestion will rely on your labels being large enough to accomodate all the extra text.</p>
<p>I always find it silly when regulatory bodies ask manufacturers to label their products with stupid names. How does this really help a consumer when they do not understand the &#8220;non plain english description&#8221;.</p>
<p>Keep up the great products.</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>John</p>
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		<title>By: Hal Mayes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hal Mayes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 18:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great question Cecelia. Once we update the ingredients on our website, we will also have a listing of the ingredients &quot;in plain English&quot; for each product. Hope that answers your question!

H.M.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great question Cecelia. Once we update the ingredients on our website, we will also have a listing of the ingredients &#8220;in plain English&#8221; for each product. Hope that answers your question!</p>
<p>H.M.</p>
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		<title>By: Cecelia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cecelia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Would you be willing/able to have a page on the website with translations to all of the new required ingredient names?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Would you be willing/able to have a page on the website with translations to all of the new required ingredient names?</p>
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