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US FDA Addresses PFAS In Cosmetics, Aiming To Close Data Gaps

 
• By Ryan Nelson

Use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in cosmetic products appears to be declining, based on voluntary industry registrations with the US Food and Drug Administration. NGOs are gunning for PFAS' elimination, and the FDA says available data have yet to give a complete safety picture for PFAS used intentionally in cosmetics or present as impurities.

The US Food and Drug Administration will work with partners and other government agencies – “as resources allow” – to fill data gaps regarding the safety of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in cosmetic products.

Dubbed “forever chemicals” due to their persistence in the environment and generally associated with their most famously toxic constituents – perfluorooctane sulphonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctane acid (PFOA) – PFAS are widely mistrusted

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