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Media centre

Welcome to our Media Centre. Here you can access the latest press releases as well as archived press releases and download our research reports and fact sheets.

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Enquiries

For specific media enquiries, please call us on 020 7491 8891 or email info@ctpa.org.uk

You can also write to us at: The Cosmetic Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA) Limited, Josaron House, 5-7 John Princes Street, London, W1G 0JN.

Further sources of information

Sense About Science has a science blog and two informative leaflets :

• ‘For the record’: where scientists are invited to set the record straight
• 'Making Sense of Chemical Stories'
• 'I don't know what to believe'

Cancer Research UK science blog provides topical advice following media coverage and also offers very clear explanations of risk factors, understanding epidemiology studies and what the latest research may mean to people worried about cancer :

• Science blog
• How to make sense of mixed messages 

The National Health Service has a ‘Behind the Headlines’ section on its website where it examines and puts in context the major health news stories.  One of the ‘Behind the Headlines’ team, Dr Alicia White, has also written a guide on how to read articles about health and healthcare.

The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) is an association of manufacturers of cosmetic, toiletry and perfumery products, founded in 1945 to promote the interests of members, primarily with government. That remit has now extended to include the European Commission and many other regulatory bodies, national and international groups.

Members are manufacturers (full members), raw material suppliers and suppliers of services (associate members). Our Council is made up of senior industry representatives from small, medium, large and multi-national companies. Activities are funded through membership subscriptions.

The focus of our work centres on scientific, regulatory and legislative issues. We have a constant dialogue with the UK Government and this process is repeated at European level through COLIPA, the European trade body and internationally through an extensive network of national association contacts.

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The Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA) is the voice of the cosmetic, toiletry and perfumery industry in the UK. Our members vary from small and medium-sized companies to large multi-nationals and include manufacturers, raw material suppliers and service providers.

Our primary goal is to promote good working practice to ensure that consumers are provided with the very best products. To this end, we co-ordinate the industry's viewpoint on key issues such as science, innovation and safety and maintain an open dialogue with government, both at UK and European level, as well as with international regulatory authorities and key opinion formers.

CTPA recognises that the consumer has a right to understand the processes that industry and the regulatory bodies go through to ensure the safety and efficacy of cosmetic and toiletry products. Over the years we have steadily increased our focus on providing the public with direct access to the industry's perspective and progress on safety, science and innovation.

In April 2008 we launched our consumer information website, www.thefactsabout.co.uk, which provides scientific facts about common ingredients used in cosmetics and the industry's perspective on common safety questions as well as information on how products are regulated to ensure safety and efficacy.

Further information on the work of the CTPA is available from our main website www.ctpa.org.uk which also houses the full set of legislation under 'Cosmetic regulations'.