CHART: At their December meeting, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review’s toxicology experts finalized four ingredient reports and issued five tentative safety assessments, plus four insufficient data announcements. The Expert Panel’s MCI/MI decision essentially upholds its 1992 stance on the preservative mixture, while highlighting its sensitization potential.
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review’s Expert Panel determined the preservative mixture of methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone (MCI/MI) safe for use at its 9-10 December meeting in Washington, albeit with stipulations concerning sensitization potential.
The MCI/MI combo (in a roughly 3:1 ratio) can be used safely in rinse-off and leave-on cosmetics at maximum concentrations...
Some FDA employees who were recently laid off by the Trump Administration are being called back to work, multiple sources confirmed to the Pink Sheet.
Proposed administrative order likely is first to prompt opposition from OTC industry or other stakeholders potentially delaying or deferring the agency’s expectation for moving its proposal to a deemed final order effective one year after it would be published.
Qnovia notes NRT inhalation product recently received investigational new drug clearance from FDA as agency and NIH say innovation needed smoking cessation to help improve rate of success for quitting the habit that kills around 500,000 US consumers annually.
The Washington State Department of Ecology will try to work with companies that violate the Toxic Free Cosmetics Act, rather than reflexively imposing the $5,000-per-violation fine for first-time offenders, says the law’s implementation planner. She noted financial assistance is available for small businesses, as well as incentives for companies adopting measures “beyond compliance.”
The Washington State Department of Ecology will try to work with companies that violate the Toxic Free Cosmetics Act, rather than reflexively imposing the $5,000-per-violation fine for first-time offenders, says the law’s implementation planner. She noted financial assistance is available for small businesses, as well as incentives for companies adopting measures “beyond compliance.”
US FDA Office of New Drugs Director Peter Stein says review divisions have made the case that a discussion-only meeting would solicit the necessary input.
Requests for “enforcement actions are not within the scope of FDA’s citizen petition procedures,” CDER says, rejecting petition dosing device firm Parenteral Technologies submitted as it prepares for workshop on Pediatric Research Equity Act requirements for OTC NDA sponsors.
