The United Nations Environment Programme, Global Mercury Partnership and its area of work on mercury-added products, is seeking inputs from online platforms related to mercury-added skin-lightening products being sold online.
Mercury added cosmetics, including skin lightening products, are banned from manufacture, import and export by international treaty Minamata Convention on Mercury and multiple governments around the world. The UNEP Global Mercury Partnership is circulating this survey to determine:
1) what policies and procedures are in place to prevent hazardous products, such as mercury added skin lightening products, from being sold or offered for sale online and 2) additional steps that may be considered.
This information will also be used to assist Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in fulfilling their obligations to prevent the manufacture, import or export of mercury added cosmetics, as they present serious health exposure risks. Responses may also contribute to a UNEP project on “Eliminating mercury-added skin lightening products”.
The survey is accessible here: https://forms.gle/d6hYS4NaG9TnR9CVA
