Scientific Record Taking for Accidents among Consumer Products

Scientific Committee on Consumer Products SCCP

2 About the Scientific Committees Three independent non-food Scientific Committees provide the Commission with the scientific advice it needs when preparing policy and proposals relating to consumer safety, public health and the environment. The Committees also draw the Commission's attention to the new or emerging problems which may pose an actual or potential threat. SCCP Questions concerning...

Scientific Committee on Consumer Products SCCP OPINION ON Diethylene glycol

Scientific Committee on Consumer Products SCCP PRELIMINARY OPINION ON SAFETY OF NANOMATERIALS IN COSMETIC PRODUCTS

Consumer Products

Correcting the scientific record.

This month we are publishing a retraction of a paper by Won et al. entitled “Small molecule–based reversible reprogramming of cellular lifespan.” The Letter, which appeared in our July 2006 issue (Nat. Chem. Biol. 2, 369–374, 2006), described the discovery by high-throughput screening of CGK733, a small molecule that was reported to modulate the ‘senescence clock’ in human cells. In the paper, ...