However, these doses are not the usual dose that a woman is exposed to when dying her hair, so it's hard to determine what this data means for a pregnant woman. She also revealed that there have been limited human studies that suggest a link to childhood cancer in children born to mothers who used hair dye while pregnant.
Another way to think about it, is the net sales amount is the amount of money that the company actually made before cost of goods sold and expenses. Returns and discounts are immediately subtracted, which gives a clearer view of how much money the company actually brought in.
DEFINITION of 'Retail Sales'. An aggregated measure of the sales of retail goods over a stated time period, typically based on a data sampling that is extrapolated to model an entire country. In the U.S., the retail sales report is a monthly economic indicator compiled and released by the Census Bureau and the Department of Commerce.