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Jan 04, 2006 | 10:40 AM CST
EUROPEN Publishes Packaging Standards Guide
EUROPEN has published a new edition of its guide to assist personal care manufacturers with packaging standards and regulations.
Jan 03, 2006 | 12:28 PM CST
Desert Whale Renews Organic Certification
Desert Whale Jojoba Co. Inc. announced the renewal of its QAI organic certification.
Dec 23, 2005 | 05:41 PM CST
The 7th International Conference on Cosmetic Regulations
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
On October 20-22, 2003, more than 300 delegates gathered at the Le Meridien Grand Pacific Hotel on Tokyo Bay for the 7th International Conference on Cosmetic Regulations. Every three years, U.S., EU and Japanese trade associations for the cosmetic industry sponsor this meeting in order to gain mutual understanding and work toward harmonizing global regulations of cosmetics. There were no spectacular announcements, unlike the last conference in 2000 in Malta when Japan announced significant changes in their cosmetic regulations.
Dec 23, 2005 | 05:10 PM CST
European Adaptation to Technical Progress
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
Starting with January 2003, The European Union discontinued the numbering of their Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP). This was done as the 7th Amendment superceded some of the approved ATP’s and made the numbering system out of sync. Since I last reported on the 7th Amendment changes, the EU Commission has issued two critical changes. ATP’s are the way to change the Annexes in the Cosmetic Directive.
Dec 23, 2005 | 04:23 PM CST
US and EU Regulations Update
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
United States – OTC Drug Review Call for Data On December 31, 2003, the FDA announced a call for data for an OTC drug review, for drugs that have not been reviewed as of this date. These include drugs sold before 5/11/72 (when the OTC drug review began) and identified by OTC category. Also included are OTC drugs marketed before 12/4/75 and described the DA’s general regulatory policy. The call for data covers these categories of ingredients, some of which have been considered to be cosmetics, not drugs: nasal moisturizer drug products, urinary analgesic/antiseptic drug products, urinary acidifiers and alkalinizers, aloe vera and urea, wrinkle remover products, lubricants and vaginal moisturizers.
Dec 23, 2005 | 03:55 PM CST
Canada Updated
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
At the December 2003 Society of Cosmetic Chemists annual meeting, I presented a one-day session on international cosmetic regulations, and concluded by saying that 2004 would be the year of Canada. So far in 2004, three major changes have occurred.
Dec 23, 2005 | 03:01 PM CST
Updates from Europe and the United States
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
European Updates The European Union (EU) Commission has not issued any changes to the Annexes of the Cosmetic Directive since September 2003 and lags in publishing many changes that have been approved. Adaptation to Technical Progress (opinions put through the EU and Ad Hoc committee review process) will be further delayed because they must be published in all EU languages. As of May 2004, the EU expanded from 15 to 25 countries, complicating the translation list.
Dec 19, 2005 | 01:43 AM CST
California Update
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
On August 26, 2004, the entire cosmetic industry dodged a bullet--or rather, Armageddon–by a single vote. The California Assembly rejected a bill that would have prohibited California companies from making or selling cosmetic/personal care items that contain phthalates and other ingredients considered under this law as toxic. The vote was 4 in favor, 5 opposed and 10 others either abstained or weren’t present.
Dec 19, 2005 | 01:35 AM CST
Implementing 21 CFR Part 11 in Cosmetics
By: Richard Balano and Lenore Coyle, NOVA Technolo…
21 CFR Part 11 specifies the comprehensive set of administrative, procedural and technical controls that must be implemented when data files, records and signatures are created, maintained or archived in an electronic format as part of a program to comply with FDA rules. In the cosmetics industry, specific applications are in development and testing of OTC drugs and color additives.
Dec 13, 2005 | 11:14 PM CST
Cosmeceutical Regulations–A Global Overview
By: David C. Steinberg, Steinberg & Associates
Cosmeceuticals are not regulated as such in the Europeon Union, United States or Japan. In the EU, most are considered cosmetics; in the United States, most are seen as drugs that probably have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In Japan, they are regulated as quasi-drugs. As you can see, we go from the extremes of limited regulated cosmetics in the EU to pre-approvals in Japan, and fi nally a lack of enforcement in the United States.