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What Do Cosmetics Reform Campaigners Dream Of At Night? Rep. Schakowsky Just Reintroduced It

 
• By Ryan Nelson

The Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act would establish a reasonable-certainty-of-no-harm standard for FDA’s review of ingredients and require companies to share their safety information for every product with the agency, which in turn would publish it for public consumption. The bill is highly similar to Schakowsky’s previous reform proposals that divided industry and the NGO community.

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Introduced Sept. 26 by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., the Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act of 2018 would position a number of cosmetic ingredients for bans, subject others to FDA review against a reasonable-certainty-of-no-harm standard, require safety data submissions from companies for every product they market and make that information available to the public via an FDA-managed database.

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