CTFA

Completion of the color additive approval for carbon black should be considered a priority of the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition in 2000, CTFA urges in a Sept. 30 letter. The trade group is responding to FDA's call for comments on CFSAN 2000 priorities in the Sept. 1 Federal Register (1"The Rose Sheet" Sept. 6, In Brief). CTFA has been in discussions with FDA since 1967 to list carbon black as a color additive for use in cosmetics. The trade group also requests that international harmonization, CFSAN participation in voluntary industry programs including the Cosmetic Ingredient Review and a voluntary reporting program to be listed among the program priorities. ICMAD also suggests international harmonization should be on CFSAN's "B" list of priorities in Sept. 16 comments