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• Guest Columnist Jean-Pierre Houri: IFRA and the 40th amendment

  

  by Jean-Pierre Houri, 06 March 2007

  Last month we asked Tony Burfield of Cropwatch to comment on IFRA's 40th Amendement. Here we give IFRA's Director General, Jean-Pierre Houri the opportunity to explain the Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) methodology for fragrance ingredients introduced by the 40th amendment....

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• Guest Columnist Tony Burfield: Perfumers and the 40th IFRA Amendment.

  

  by Tony Burfield, 23 February 2007

  A Perfumer's Lot: You could be forgiven for thinking that perfumers are becoming a threatened species. Opportunities for working perfumers are disappearing as dinosaur eats dinosaur in the fragrance world, and small perfume companies fight to hold their places amongst a background of commercial takeovers and mergers. Something else is happening too. In living memory, distinguished perfumers once led fragrance companies, or were, at least, members of the company's board. Now, salespeople, marketeers and accountants invariably head up aroma companies, and these very same individuals also seem to populate perfumery societies and associations, leaving the perfumers relegated as the 'back-room boys' of the trade, with a pecking order status slightly under the regulatory affairs manager, or the perfume evaluator....

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