Cosmetics Voluntary Cosmetic

Cosmetic manufacturers are not required to register their establishments, file data on ingredients, or report cosmetic-related injuries to FDA. However, companies are encouraged to register their establishments and file Cosmetic Product Ingredient Statements with the FDA s Voluntary Cosmetic Registration... 

Although these professional-use-only products do not require ingredient labeling, the cosmetics industry has developed a program to voluntarily Hst the components of professional products. However, under this voluntary program, the ingredients are Hsted in alphabetical order rather than descending order. This has been done to make it easier for the professional hairdresser to locate a specific compound that may be of interest. 

In addition to the CIR process the cosmetic industry has instituted a second, important, self-regulatory procedure the voluntary reporting of adverse reactions, which is intended to provide data on the type and incidence of adverse reactions noted by consumers or by their medical advisors. This reporting procedure creates early awareness of problems handled outside hospital emergency facilities or centers for acute poisoning. 

Over the years that followed, an overwhelming majority of the primary dyes used in food came from certified lots. Both the number of batches and the total pounds certified grew steadily over the life of the Wiley Act. Thus the voluntary certification plan worked reasonably well. With the enactment of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, food color certification became mandatory. Although somewhat modified, in response to changed scientific standards, by the Color Additive Amendment of 1960, Hesse s procedures remain today the basis of American regulatory policy. 

The existing voluntary labelling of detergents now forms part of this Regulation and this has been expanded to list any preservative used in the product and the presence of allergenic perfume ingredients (as defined by the Scientific Committee on Cosmetics and Non Food Products) in excess of 0.01%. 

One of the key self-regulatory procedures in the cosmetic industry is the voluntary reporting process of adverse reactions. The program is intended to provide data on the type and frequency of adverse reactions reported by consumers or by their medical advisors to the industry. It is an important means of detecting problems that are not treated in hospital emergency rooms (i.e., documented in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, NEISS) or do not reach poison control centers. 

The AOAC is a voluntary organization of chemists that sponsors the development and testing of methods for analyzing nutrients, foods, food and color additives, animal feeds, liquors, beverages, drugs, cosmetics, pesticides, and many other commodities. Periodically, they publish methods which are acceptable for these analyses. 

Recalls of cosmetics are voluntary actions taken by manufacturers or distributors. Removal represents a hazard or gross deception or that the product is somewhat defective. FDA categorizes a firm s action as a recall (as opposed to a market withdrawal) when it determines that the product hazard or defect represents a violation of the FD C Act. The... 

Cosmetic enterprises worldwide act responsibly, therefore voluntary addition of forbidden ingredients is very scarce. However, methods to detect and/or determine than are necessary because public administrations have to assure that forbidden ingredients are not contained in the finished product, either through voluntary addition or as a by-product in fact, health problems in such cases can derive from this type of unexpected compound. 

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