*Ahem*  I’m embarrassed to admit this – but I don’t always wash my hands before I eat.  This is particularly so when I’m at home because I don’t think my hands or my home is dirty.  But the thing that bothers me sometimes is that I’ve just applied hand cream and I didn’t even bother to wash my hands before picking up that piece of bread or biscuit.   Now, did I or did I not just ate a bit of those hand cream that I’ve applied? 

Sometime last week, I received an email from a company who had asked me to test their eye product recalling the item because one of the ingredients was slightly over the Singapore Cosmetic Directive limit. I was rather surprised because the product is already sold in the market. This means that it was sold prior to gaining approval from the Health Science Authority (HSA) here as under the cosmetic directive which regulates the manufacture and placing on the market of cosmetic products,  sellers will need to send all cosmetic products for specified tests. So was the company at fault?