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EWG: FDA Should Raise Bar On Lead In Cosmetics; Innovation Will Follow

 
• By Ryan Nelson

The NGO – and Gwyneth Paltrow – are rallying consumer support for a stronger FDA position on contaminant lead in cosmetics. The group is confident that innovation enabling lead-free lipsticks and other color cosmetics would follow an outright regulatory ban, but that optimism may not accord with reality.

The FDA’s recent recommendation that trace lead in cosmetics be capped at 10 parts per million did not sit well with the Environmental Working Group, which has launched an online petition urging the agency to “get lead out of cosmetics.”

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