BOSTON — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed into law Thursday a bill that would phase out the use of PFAS, a group of toxic industrial compounds, in firefighters’ protective gear. “Today Massachusetts is putting the health and safety of our firefighters first.” Starting January 2025, under the new law, manufacturers and sellers of personal protective equipment containing PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl …
New Delhi: Lenovo plans to ramp up local manufacturing in India, which it considers its top-priority market globally. The Chinese company, which makes laptops, tablets, servers and smartphones—under the Motorola brand—is evaluating manufacturing of servers in India as it looks to take advantage of the production-linked incentive scheme for IT hardware amid regulatory clampdown in the US. The Chinese technology …
Two in three adolescents are not practising appropriate hand hygiene, a shocking recent global study involving University of Queensland researchers has found. The personal care industry has been very vocal about men’s intimate hygiene in the recent past, says Sarthak Taneja, Co-Founder, Skin Elements, adding that maintaining body hygiene is equally important for both the sexes, especially the genitals. Personal …
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought focus on increased precautionary measure to remain safe from the virus, which in turn has also given a boost to awareness of personal hygiene products. Actors such as Jacqueline Fernandez, Nusrat Jahan and Yami Gautam, among others are being roped in as brand ambassadors to reach out to the masses through hygiene and personal care …
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