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FDA Stalls, But States Push to Keep It Clean Congress and FDA lauded the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA), enacted in 2022, as sweeping federal legislation to increase cosmetic safety and quality standards....more
In March 2024, Valisure, an independent quality advocate, filed a citizen petition claiming to have detected elevated levels of benzene in benzoyl peroxide acne treatment products. Valisure’s petition included testing results...more
Mandatory testing of talc-containing cosmetic products is coming. At the end of December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a cosmetics rule and test method for asbestos in talc that was required under Section...more
U.S. Representatives Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Shontel Brown (D-Ohio) have sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf seeking an update on the agency’s...more
On June 13, the Biden Administration released its Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which announced its plan to propose a rule that would ban the inclusion of formaldehyde and other...more
As discussed in the Product Perspective, the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) represents a major shift in cosmetic industry regulations. This article, in our continuing series of posts diving into...more
The American Conference Institute is hosting its first West Coast Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Cosmetics & Personal Care Products in Santa Monica on September 28-29, 2023! This conference comes just in time to...more
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
In a growing trend to regulate the chemicals contained in consumer products, numerous states are enacting laws and regulations to address the presence of 1,4-dioxane in consumer products. 1,4-dioxane is a synthetic industrial...more
In recent years, state and federal agencies have either passed or proposed increasingly stringent regulations regarding the use of per-fluoroalkyl and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in consumer products. Not surprisingly,...more
This year – 2022 – may finally be the year that the effort to modernize safety standards in the U.S. for cosmetics and other personal care products, which has been ongoing since 2013, comes to fruition. If so, the new...more
PFAS are a diverse group of human-made components that are used in a variety of consumer products. PFAS is FDA authorized for use in food contact substances, such as packaging, cookware, and other products, due to its...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Through a reintroduced House bill, Congress is taking strides to push for cosmetic regulation reform and, separately, through the SAFE Act, it is seeking to establish a safe harbor for financial...more
On March 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) simultaneously published its independent testing results confirming the presence of asbestos in certain cosmetic products sold by Claire’s and by the girls'...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Rep. Schakowsky (D-Ill.) proposes latest cosmetics reform bill to enhance the FDA’s oversight of cosmetic products and ensure cosmetics are free of known toxins and contaminants....more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) slow and retroactive response to toxic chemicals found in cosmetics is being called into question. In the past year, there have been more protests urging the FDA to ban lead...more
As we predicted earlier this year, Congress is making moves toward enacting cosmetics reform legislation in the near future. In late October 2017, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced S. 2003, the “FDA Cosmetic Safety and...more
The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more
Back in April 2015, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act (S.1014). More recently, on September 22, 2016, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions...more
The “toxic trio” is a foreboding name some associate with common and seemingly innocuous manicures and pedicures. Salon workers suffer higher-than-average rates of birth defects, miscarriages, cancers, and skin afflictions...more