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MoCRA Check-In: EAS Consulting's John Bailey On Proposed Cosmetics Office Move

John Bailey, independent advisor for colors and cosmetics at EAS Consulting Group and former director of the US FDA's cosmetics office, is checking in with HBW Insight periodically in 2023 to offer his views on developments under the Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act of 2022. Here he discusses the FDA's plan to move cosmetics regulation out of CFSAN and into the Office of the Chief Scientist.

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Historically, FDAs cosmetic program has been located in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, first as a division (with and without the color certification program) and, in 1992, as the Office of Cosmetics and Colors. The fit in the foods program has always been something of an oddity because of the vast difference between the way foods and cosmetics are regulated. There have been recurring proposals to move the program, usually from the foods program to the drugs program in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. The program has been kept in the foods program to maintain some level of prominence and visibility and so it wouldn’t get lost in the important activities of the drugs program.

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