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Follow a subject that keeps moving: know what changed, decide if it matters, and produce the piece it calls for. Without reading everything yourself.
@maya-brooks5 magiks · updated Aug 5, 20265 steps, and each one starts from what the last produced.
Most AI answers one big question in one go. This lab cuts the job into small steps instead: each step has its own tools and its own reference documents, does one thing well, and hands its result to the next. You stay in the loop where it matters.
What you are watching, why it matters to you, where to look, and what counts as a change worth your attention.
Your watchYour watch
What you are watching The French rules on packaging for cosmetics sold online. Specifically : what must appear on the label, what must appear on the product page, and what the two do not have to share.
Why it matters to you You sell 40 references. A labelling change means a print run, a photo shoot and 40 page updates. You want six weeks of warning, not six days.
Where to look
| SourceSource | What it publishesWhat it publishes | RhythmRhythm |
|---|---|---|
| Légifrance, arrêtés cosmétiques | the text itself | irregular |
| DGCCRF, avis aux professionnels | the reading and the tolerances | monthly |
| Cosmetic Europe, position papers | what the sector is negotiating | quarterly |
What counts as a change A published text, or an official reading that changes what must appear. Not : a press article, a competitor doing something new, a LinkedIn post from a lawyer.
What does not count Everything upstream of publication. Drafts, consultations and rumours are noise for you : you cannot reprint 40 labels on a rumour.
What Define your watch produces carries over here.
One sweep of the sources: what changed since last time, what is only noise, and what deserves a decision.
Sweep of 11 MarchSweep of 11 March
Three sources read. One change, two noise.
Worth your attention DGCCRF published a notice on 6 March on the mention of the period after opening. It confirms the 12M symbol stays optional below a 30-month shelf life, and adds that the shelf life must now be justifiable on request. That last part is new.
Noise, and why
What it means for you Nothing to reprint. Something to be able to produce : the shelf-life justification for each of your 40 references. If you have it in a supplier file, you are fine.
Next sweep Monday 18 March. Légifrance had nothing this week, which is the normal case.
What What's new produces carries over here.
Takes one change and checks it against the primary source before anyone acts on it.
Verification: « shelf life must be justifiable »Verification: « shelf life must be justifiable »
The claim, as it reached you A newsletter states that since March, cosmetics sold online must display their shelf-life justification on the product page.
The primary source DGCCRF notice of 6 March 2026, section 4. Read in full.
What the text actually says The justification must be held by the person responsible and produced on request during a check. The word « display » does not appear. Nothing requires it on a public page.
Verdict: partly false. The obligation is real, its form is not. Someone turned « hold and produce » into « display », which is a different job and a different cost.
What to do Keep the justification in your product file. Do not touch your 40 pages.
Why this check mattered The two readings differ by about three weeks of work.
What Is this real? produces carries over here.
Turns a confirmed change into the thing you actually have to produce: a note to a client, an internal memo, a public post.
Shelf life, what changed and what does notShelf life, what changed and what does not
Subject: Shelf life, what changed and what does not
Hello,
A short note so nobody spends a week on this.
The DGCCRF notice of 6 March asks that the shelf life of each reference be justifiable on request. It does not ask for anything to be displayed. Our product pages do not change.
What we need: for each of the 40 references, the supplier document that establishes the shelf life, filed where a check would find it in ten minutes. Camille has the list, thirty-one are already there.
What we are not doing: reprinting labels, touching the site, or answering the newsletter that announced the opposite.
signed with your name
What The piece it calls for produces carries over here.
What this watch has caught over time, so you can show your work and see what you keep missing.
The logThe log
Since 12 January, 9 sweeps, 4 confirmed changes.
| DateDate | ChangeChange | SourceSource | What followedWhat followed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Mar | Shelf-life justification to be held | DGCCRF notice | product file updated |
| 2 Feb | Allergen list unchanged for 2026 | Légifrance | nothing, and that was the useful answer |
| 21 Jan | Recycled-content symbol becomes optional | arrêté | symbol dropped on next print run |
| 14 Jan | Consultation opened on nano labelling | DGCCRF | watched, not acted on |
What this watch keeps missing Everything that comes from your suppliers rather than from the regulator. Two of the four changes above reached you first through a supplier email, days before the source published. The watch confirms, it does not warn.
What that suggests A supplier inbox is a better early signal than an official journal, and it is not in your sources.
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