'Groundbreaking' Initiative from Personal Care Products Council would Establish an Additional Layer of Federal Oversight & Enhance Existing Consumer Safeguards
FROM: Personal Care Products Council (former CTFA)
Posted: July 15, 2010

In a groundbreaking initiative intended to enhance existing protections for millions of American consumers, the US cosmetics industry today announced plans to support legislation that would strengthen and modernize regulatory oversight of the industry and create a greater role for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in assessing ingredient safety for personal care products.
The Council is seeking to create formal processes for FDA to review ingredients for safety at the request of the public and stakeholder groups and to review all safety determinations made by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) Expert Panel. No such FDA processes currently exist.
US cosmetics Industry emphasized the proactive nature of today’s announcement, which is being made in the absence of any specific public health risk or legislative mandate involving personal care products, which remain safe to use. Rather, the industry is responding to American consumers who are requesting and deserving more transparency from government and industry while ensuring their ability to keep pace with continued demand for innovative products.