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Smooth Move

Date: March 27, 2005

Author: Rob Walker

QUOTE: Blurring the line between a cosmetic and a pharmaceutical is now a $12.4 billion sector: ''cosmeceuticals'' are defined by Packaged Facts, a consumer-goods research firm, as products that ''beautify as they address health problems or concerns.'' There is, of course, a long history of products that seem to promise health benefits but aren't quite medicine.

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• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Klein-Becker
• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Beauty Products

• Health & Medicine
  • Drugs: Prescription/Non-Prescription
  • Health Care Business
    • Pharmaceutical / Drug / Biotech

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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