Congressional Races Could Alter Cosmetics Legislative Outlook, Starting With House Energy & Commerce

In Congress's current meeting, Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., has called FDA’s inspection program for imported cosmetics “startling” in its inadequacy, sounded off on asbestos and other contaminated-cosmetic dangers while standing outside a Claire’s store in his district, and repeatedly called for a hearing to promote cosmetics legislative reform efforts.

That hearing, which was promised to be the venue for Pallone’s unveiling of a cosmetics bill he circulated in discussion form in 2016, hasn’t materialized