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On 25-26 January 2024, the SCCS meeting of the Working Group (WG) on cosmetic ingredients in cosmetic products was held. The points of the previous meeting were agreed upon and published. Below is a summary of the points discussed in this WG meeting.
On 5 January 2024, the European Commission published the 21st Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP) to Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on the classification, labelling, and packaging of substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation). The new harmonized classifications concern, among others, cosmetic ingredients. Some of them have gotten CMR classifications, which means that the Read more…
On 13 December 2023, ECHA published the draft list of the substances included in the Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for the years 2024-2026. A total of 28 substances suspected of posing a risk tohuman health or the environment are subject to evaluation by the Member State competent authorities under Read more…
The draft agenda of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) 6th plenary meeting, on 26 October 2023, has just been published.
On 29 August 2022, ECHA announced that it had received new harmonized classification and labelling (CLH) proposals for eight fragrance cosmetic ingredients submitted by Sweden. These ingredients were initially proposed to be classified as Reproductive toxicants, category 1B. However, it is worth noting that as of now, five of these Read more…
On 6 December 2022, the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament completed negotiations on the latest version of the EU Deforestation-Free Supply Chain Regulation.
On 16 February 2023, Cosmetics Europe launches a new online database COSMILE Europe. It is a European database of cosmetic ingredients to help consumers to find information on ingredients displayed on the label or packaging of cosmetics and personal care products.
On 13 December 2022, ECHA published the draft list of the substances included in the Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for the years 2023-2025. Interestingly, 7 out of 24 substances included in the CoRAP process, are authorized ingredients that can be used in cosmetic products, while one substance is prohibited Read more…
On 21-22 June 2022, the SCCS 2nd plenary meeting was held.
Although it is easy to identify some Aluminium (AL)-cosmetic ingredients by their INCI name containing the word “Aluminum”, there are many Al-containing ingredients difficult to be identified.