Episode 47 Canada's Beauty Compliance Crisis: Banned Ingredients, EPR & Data Chaos with Rabia

Rabia Shakoor works in compliance at Sephora Canada and her job is way more complex than it sounds. In this episode, she breaks down how retailers navigate Canada's strict chemical regulations (CEPA, the Hot List, the Domestic Substances List), the growing burden of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and why there's still no single software solution that covers it all. She also shares her vision for what AI-powered lifecycle management could look like for the beauty industry.