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Integral Consulting Inc.

Can This Product Hurt Me? Assessing Health Risk in Certain Personal Care Products

Personal care products include a wide range of items such as cosmetics, skin care products, hair care products, deodorants, and more. Two of the largest segments of these products are shampoo and hair dye. In 2022, there were...more

Locke Lord LLP

This Will Not Make You Blush. States ‎Are ‎Making Regulation of Cosmetics a Priority

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Cosmetics Regulation - Currently, cosmetics are regulated through the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA)– ‎which has recently been revamped by the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA)–and ‎various...more

McGuireWoods LLP

California Bans Four Common Food Additives and 26 Chemicals Used in Cosmetics

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On Oct. 7, 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act (CFSA) into law, making California the first state to ban the manufacture, sale, distribution or delivery of food products containing four food...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Protecting Yourself from Harmful Chemicals: Alternatives to Chemical Hair Straighteners

Chemical hair straighteners present health risks, including more than doubling users’ risk of developing uterine cancer. As more information about these risks becomes known, more women are looking for better and safer...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

More Chemicals Banned from Cosmetics

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With the passage of Washington’s Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act of 2023, several states are gearing up to pass similar laws. The new Washington law bans the manufacture, sale, and distribution of cosmetic products that contain any...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

SCCS Updates Guidance for the Testing of Cosmetic Ingredients and Their Safety Evaluation

The European Commission’s (EC) Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) published on May 16, 2023, the 12th revision of The SCCS Notes of Guidance for the Testing of Cosmetic Ingredients and Their Safety Evaluation. The...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California’s Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act Bans 24 Ingredients From Cosmetic Products

Effective January 1, 2025, a new California law will prohibit 24 ingredients from use in cosmetic products. California’s Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act [Assembly Bill (“AB”) 2762] was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on...more

Perkins Coie

Congress Passes Major Update to Federal Cosmetics Regulation

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Buried within the thousands of pages of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 is the most significant statutory expansion to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority over cosmetics since 1938...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

California Bans PFAS “Forever Chemicals” in Clothing, Textiles, and Cosmetics

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California joined the growing list of states to ban products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) when, on September 29th, Governor Newsom signed into law legislation prohibiting the so-called “forever...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EC’s Public Consultation on Targeted Revision of the Cosmetic Products Regulation Includes Review of Nanomaterial Definition

The European Commission (EC) has begun a public consultation on how the Cosmetic Products Regulation could be improved to ensure human health and the functioning of the internal market. According to the EC, the identified...more

Goldberg Segalla

European Union’s Lilial Ban Puts Social Media Microscope on U.S. Products Containing the Chemical Compound

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Lilial, the trade name of a chemical compound commonly used as a perfume in cosmetics, shampoos, and cleaning products, which is known by its longer name butylphenyl methylpropional, has been banned in personal care products...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New Phthalates Study Garnering Media Attention Purports to Show Only an Association – Not Causation – with Certain Mortalities

A new study regarding phthalates has garnered media attention this month, but readers should recognize the study’s limitations.  Some media coverage of this study blurs the important distinction between “association” and...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Cosmetics Companies: Beware of PFAS

It’s no secret that the regulatory landscape of cosmetics and personal care products as we know it is changing. Over the last few years, Congress, along with industry and consumer groups, have made a combined effort to push...more

Lathrop GPM

Food and Drug Administration Posts Information about PFAS in Cosmetics for the First Time

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Last week, the FDA posted information about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS, found in personal care products such as lotions, nail polish, shaving cream, foundation and mascara. PFAS chemicals are...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Public Consultation Begins on SCCS Scientific Advice on Safety of Nanomaterials in Cosmetics

The European Commission’s (EC) Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) began a public consultation on October 5, 2020, on a preliminary opinion entitled Scientific Advice on the Safety of Nanomaterials in Cosmetics. ...more

Jones Day

Intentional or Not? Questions Loom Over EU's Proposed Micro-Plastic Particle Restrictions

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The Situation: The European Commission ("Commission") has requested that the European Chemicals Agency ("ECHA") investigate the need for an EU-wide restriction on "intentionally added' micro-plastic particles. The...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, November 2018

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - EPA Issues Final TSCA Fees Rule: On October 17, 2018, EPA issued a final fees rule under TSCA. 83 Fed. Reg. 52694. The final rule largely tracks the proposed rule....more

Morgan Lewis

Impending Tariffs on China to Impact Manufacturers of Dietary Supplements, OTC Drugs, Cosmetics

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Newly approved tariffs would impose 10 to eventual 25% tariffs on hundreds of chemical ingredients imported from China used for many FDA-regulated products, including dietary supplements, OTC drugs, and cosmetics....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

NICNAS Case Studies Provide Guide to Categorizing Chemicals under New Scheme

On May 16, 2018, the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) announced the availability of six case studies intended to help stakeholders understand how the categorization process for new...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EC Ombudsman Issues Recommendation in Case Regarding Lack of Access to Catalog of Nanomaterials Used in Cosmetics

On March 13, 2018, the European Commission (EC) Ombudsman issued its recommendation in a case concerning the EC’s refusal to grant access to its catalog of nanomaterials used in cosmetics, as well as to related notification...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

ClientEarth Files Complaint with EU Ombudsman over EC Catalog of Nanomaterials Used in Cosmetic Products

ClientEarth announced on July 31, 2017, that it filed a complaint with the European Union (EU) Ombudsman about the European Commission’s (EC) “unlawful handling of a long-delayed list of nano-chemicals in cosmetics.” As...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

EU to Evaluate Chemicals Used In Cosmetics for Potential New Regulations

Several substances used as ingredients for cosmetic and other consumer products will be evaluated for possible regulatory action in the European Union in the next three years. On 27 October 2016, the European Chemicals...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Cosmetic Safety Legislation Introduced, Again

In what is the latest in a line of Congressional proposals to beef up the federal government’s authority to regulate cosmetics, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has proposed a bill aimed at dramatically increasing Food and...more

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