MoCRA Check-In: Postscript To My Three Minutes At US FDA's Cosmetics GMP ‘Listening Session’

EAS Consulting Group’s John Bailey is checking in with HBW Insight periodically in 2023 to offer his views on developments under the US Modernization of Cosmetic Regulations Act of 2022. Here he provides his experience with, and takeaways from, the US FDA’s 1 June virtual “listening session” on good manufacturing practices for cosmetic products.

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Among the many provisions enacted by the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulations of 2022 (MoCRA) is the requirement that FDA promulgate regulations that establish Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) specifically for cosmetics.

This is a long, multistep process that will be challenging for FDA to complete by the required deadline. It is...

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