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Substantiating Appropriate Motion Capture Techniques for the Assessment of Nordic Walking Gait and Posture in Older Adults
Published on: May 12, 2016
Non-comedogenic and non-acnegenic claim substantiation
Craig Weiss1, Michael Caswell1
1Consumer Product Testing Company, Inc., Fairfield, NJ 07004.
Abstract:
There are currently two methods to evaluate comedogenecity. One is the inexpensive human model developed by Mills and Kligman and modified by others. The second is the more costly human clinical trial, which is the gold standard for comedogenesis and to which the human model is compared. The qualification of each method to support the comedogenecity claim is evaluated and contrasted.
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