EU’s Planned Revision Of Cosmetics Regulation Makes For Uneasy Global Industry

 
• By Ryan Nelson

To cosmetics industry stakeholders, the EU’s talk of instituting a generic risk management approach to eliminate “most hazardous” chemicals spells wholesale adoption of the precautionary principle, the disposal of exposure and risk considerations, and, ultimately, increased cosmetic ingredient restrictions and bans without proportionate human health benefits.

Industry stakeholders weighing in on the EU’s planned revision of the Cosmetic Products Regulation share a common concern, that the EU is on the brink of scuttling risk assessment in the cosmetics sector in favor of a “modern” system that restricts and bans ingredients based on hazard signals alone.

In 29 October feedback to the Commission, trade association Cosmetics Europe

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