Abstract
Lawsuits related to perfumery and cosmetics are increasing recently in Japan. Especially, products liability (PL) suits are important. Among the PL lawsuits, wheat induced anaphylaxy due to hydrolyzed wheat as ingredients, Gefitinib lawsuits and rhododenol induced vitiligo are suspected to the smash effects on the number of PL suits in Japan. However, compared to PL suits in USA, the number and jurisdictional amount in USA are much larger than those of Japan. Some judgement cases on perfumery and cosmetics PL suits and mal-usage cases in beauty salons are reported briefly in this article.
