Formaldehyde Hair-Smoothing Ban Still ‘High Priority’ For US FDA Despite Proposed Rule Delay

Testing conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration has found several cosmetic products on the market that contain high levels of methylene chloride, a banned ingredient.

Engaging with EU member state legislators, stressing the impact of national EPR systems on the accessibility, availability, and affordability of medicines, reformulating products to reduce their financial contribution, and lobbying for expanding the scope of EPR schemes to include other polluting industries are all ways that the European consumer health industry can try and influence the way that the revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive is transposed into national legislation, law firm Mason Hayes & Curran explains.

France's food safety regulator ANSES is proposing a reproductive toxicity category 1B classification for CBD under the EU's CLP regulation, which would mean an effective ban on CBD in cosmetics and foods. However, French hemp industry association UIVEC hopes that new evidence coming out of a European Commission review will put the issue to bed before it gets that far.

Two nail care ingredients included in the European Commission’s Omnibus VII, which includes about two dozen ingredients overall, are banned in Europe in September.