FDA Targets <em>DermaTox</em> Maker In Year’s First Published Warnings To Cosmetics Firms

FDA Targets DermaTox Maker In Year’s First Published Warnings To Cosmetics Firms

08 Mar 2017

Healthy Habits reacts indignantly to FDA’s warning about testimonials for DermaTox products featured on its website, which the agency says identify the items as unapproved drugs. Aegeia Skin Care also receives a warning letter for structure/function and disease-treatment claims on its facial- and body-care products.

FDA’s warning letter activity in the cosmetics space appeared to drop off steeply last fall, with not a peep from the agency for months, but newly published letters signal FDA’s continued surveillance of the marketplace for excessive claims on skin-care products.

Agency officials indicated last year in exchanges with lawmakers that the roughly 30 warning letters to skin-care companies in 2016...