7TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON PERFUMERY AND NATURAL RAW MATERIALS

[Guest guest]

Centifolia 2008 will run its 7th international congress in Grasse on

21-23 october 2008.

See their program by clicking the following link:

http://www.centifolia-grasse.net/en/presentations/conference-program-at-\

a-glance.html

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-a-glance.html>

You will notice this particular point, showing the awareness of even the

big fish:

- The signing of a resolution (by the CEOs of the major Brands and

ingredient manufacturers):

To promote equity in human exchanges in general, and specifically in

commercial circles, between local communities and the " modern "

world. To protect, under acceptable and sustainable conditions, the

traditions, formulas and recipes, and ancestral savoir-faire of local

communities and/or indigenous peoples as concerns the production and use

of plants in cosmetics, food, pharmaceuticals, and well-being products.

This is to address the urgent state of affairs in the following domains:

Cultural: The imminent disappearance or biopiracy of an exceptionally

valuable ancestral heritage (plants, formulas and recipes, beneficial

effects…)

Environmental: Climate change, protection of environment and

biodiversity

Economic: The opportunity found in an emerging market: the tremendous

success of natural products with consumers concerned about their health

and safety, and who desire a more just and sustainable society.

Social: Autochthonous communities which have been " exterminated,

despoiled, or uprooted, " who have lost all hope of recovering their

dignity, a phenomenon which will inevitably have major negative

consequences on modern society.

Political: A new awareness on the part of political leaders of the

serious situation in which their indigenous communities find themselves,

and who are seeking solutions to curb this phenomenon.

Isabelle