Blog For Cosmetic Professionals — Regulatory Problems

Acid Green 25

Posted by Colin Sanders on

  Colours are popular with consumers, but seem to get legislators a bit worked up.  It is almost as if the different governments have got together to make the naming systems and regulations as impenetrable as possible. I came across a good example of that today.   An american product had Green 5 listed on the pack.  Was this permitted in Europe? So the first question is what do we call Green 5 over here?  Well hopefully they were using the FDA approved Green 5.  That is what most cosmetic companies would be using.  There is a Solvent Green 5...

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Bomb Cosmetics Run Into Problems With Soap That Looks Like Tart

Posted by Colin Sanders on

  I try to keep an eye on Rapex reports as they are a good way of keeping abreast of how regulations are interpreted across Europe.  In the last couple of weeks there has been a case of the Spanish equivalent of trading standards ordering a product to be taken off the market because of their resemblance to food.  They are quoting an EU directive - this is the one from 1987. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:31987L0357&from=EN It's a directive so it is up to individual countries to enact national legislation to address it, which are supposed to be consistent across the EU.  The...

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FDA Import Refusals

Posted by Colin Sanders on

  I keep an eye on the FDA's reports of things that are refused import at the docks. This is far and away the most common cause of problems with regulatory compliance. The goods get looked at by officials and they are able to take action against anything they deem to be wrong by the simple expedient of stopping it entering the country. There isn't a huge amount the supplying company can do when this happens. There is a steady stream of these events but one company seems to have had a particularly bad time in June with no fewer...

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