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UL Proposes Best Practices For Personal-Care Safety Assessments

 
• By Lauren Nardella

The cosmetics industry could benefit from concrete standards for conducting product and ingredient risk assessments, UL suggests in a white paper recommending best practices based on safety-review frameworks used by the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety, Cosmetic Ingredient Review, the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials and others. The certification and consulting firm's research revealed variability in firms' approaches to risk assessment, it says.

Standardization of personal-care risk assessment according to best practices could help to alleviate consumer concerns about cosmetic ingredients, according to global safety consulting and certification firm UL, which is jockeying for an intermediary role between industry and an increasingly safety-conscious public.

"UL believes there is a role for third parties to bridge the confidence gap and provide an effective means to...

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• By Eileen Francis

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• By Malcolm Spicer

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