Dr. Anurag Pande, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Sabinsa Corporation, will be discussing Novel Actives from Developing Countries at the Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in New York, NY May 17-19, 2012.

Dr. Pande will share Sabinsa's experiences in developing novel actives from Asian countries, discussing:
- The importance finding new sources for active ingredients
- The biodiversity of Asian plants / botanicals
- Natural actives from Asian botanicals
- Challenges of sourcing actives from developing countries

The Sustainable Cosmetics Summit is a series of international summits that focuses on the leading issues the beauty industry faces concerning sustainability, natural, organic, fair trade and ecological products. The aim of the summit is to encourage sustainability in the beauty industry by bringing together key stakeholders and debate these major issues in a high-level forum.