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Rwanda bans skin lightening creams
    2019-01-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

卢旺达全面禁止美白产品

The Rwandan government is sending officials across the country to enforce its ban on skin lightening and bleaching products.

The African country is leading a campaign against skin bleaching and substandard cosmetics, particularly products that include hydroquinone, a spokesman from the Rwanda Standards Board told CNN. “It is been implemented by the Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Food and Drug Authority and the Rwanda Standards Board,” said Simeon Kwizera, the public relations and communications officer for the board.

“Operations are being conducted by technical people,” he said. “The police is there to oversee and make sure that all operations are being conducted in a safe way.”

President Paul Kagame sparked discussions on the need to ban the sale of skin whiteners on social media in November.

In response to a post from a woman calling for the government to crack down on skin bleaching, Kagame said on Twitter that bleaching creams are unhealthy, and he called on the country’s health ministry and police to “rein this in very quickly.”

Government officials and police are now patrolling markets in the capital, Kigali, and in provinces across the African nation, seizing skin lightening and bleaching products from vendors.

Last month, the country’s Standards Board warned the public about the alternative names for hydroquinone, one of the prohibited ingredients in ordinary commercial cosmetics.

“All the ingredients that can help in body bleaching and skin bleaching are banned,” a government spokesperson told CNN.

“We are now making great efforts educating people, going around and seizing those illegal products,” said Francois Uwinkindi, director of the cancer unit at the Ministry of Health.

Skin whitening creams are sold in many African countries without restriction, despite increasing push-back from the public and governments on the continent.

Skin lightening products contain chemicals such as mercury and hydroquinone, which can cause liver damage, reduce resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, and increase anxiety, depression and psychosis, according to the World Health Organization.

Ghana implemented a ban on skin lightening creams in 2017, following Cote d’ivoire’s ban in 2015. Words to Learn

相关词汇

【禁止】jìnzhǐ

prohibit forbid by authority

【精神错乱】jīngshén cuòluàn

psychosis a serious mental illness characterized by defective or lost contact with reality, often with hallucinations or delusions

卢旺达政府正在全国各地推行美白及漂白产品禁令。

卢旺达标准委员会的一名发言人告诉CNN说,该国正在推行一场反对皮肤漂白和劣质化妆品(尤其是含有对苯二酚的产品)的活动。该委员会的公共关系和传播官员西米恩· 科维泽拉说:“卢旺达卫生部、卢旺达食品药品局和卢旺达标准委员会共同推行这一活动。”

他说:“具体措施将由专业人员开展,警方只起到监督作用,确保所有的工作都安全开展。”

去年11月,卢旺达总统保罗· 卡加梅在社交媒体上引发了关于禁止销售皮肤增白产品的讨论。

一名女子发贴呼吁政府打击皮肤漂白行为,卡加梅在推特上回应称,漂白霜是不健康的,他呼吁本国的卫生部和警方“迅速遏制”这种风气。

目前,卢旺达政府官员和警察正在首都基加利以及各省巡查市场,查处没收小贩的美白和漂白产品。

上个月,卢旺达的标准委员会警告公众,要警惕易名后的对苯二酚,这是市场上普通化妆品中的禁用成分之一。

卢旺达政府的一名发言人告诉CNN说:“一切有助于身体和脸部皮肤漂白的成分都被禁止了。”

卫生部癌症中心主任弗朗索瓦· 乌云金蒂说:“我们正大力对民众进行宣传教育,到处查抄非法产品。”

尽管非洲越来越多的公众和政府开始抵制美白产品,但是美白霜依然毫无限制地在许多非洲国家销售。

世界卫生组织指出,美白产品中包含水银和对苯二酚等化合物,会造成肝损伤,降低人体对细菌和真菌感染的抵抗力,还会加重焦虑、抑郁和精神错乱症状。

继科特迪瓦在2015年禁止美白产品,加纳也于2017年实施了美白霜禁令。 (Chinadaily.com.cn)

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