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FDA Balks At CIR Public-Private Partnership In FY 2017 Budget Request

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Based on its fiscal 2017 budget justification, FDA does not support a congressional proposal to formalize Cosmetic Ingredient Review safety assessments through a public-private partnership. The agency still intends to prepare a report on the subject, as directed by Senate and House appropriations committees, but characterizes the proposed framework as "inappropriate."

Partnering with the Cosmetic Ingredient Review program to formalize cosmetic-ingredient safety assessments would be "inappropriate," potentially raising "significant appearance concerns and resource issues," according to FDA's fiscal 2017 budget justification.

In reports supporting FY 2016 spending bills, Senate and House appropriations committees proposed transferring CIR to the US Pharmacopeial Convention or another "some other appropriate third body," which could provide a

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