European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association

This situation changed in the 1950s with the work of Schulze (10), which subsequently lead to the publication of several defined protocols U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (2) (first published in 1978), Deutsches Institut fiir Normung (DIN) in 1984 (11), and the European Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Perfumery Association... 

COLIPA Sim Protection Factor Test Method. The European Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumery Association, Bruxelles, 1994. 

COLIP A, Guidelines for the Evaluation of the Efficacy of Cosmetic Products, European Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Perfumery Association, Rue du Congres, 5-7 B-1000 Brussels, Belgium, August 1996. 

European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association US Cosmetics, Toiletry and Eragran-ce Association... 

COLIPA International sun protection factor (SPF) test method, European Cosmetic Toiletries and Perfumery Association - COLIPA, Brussels, 2003. 

COLIPA method for the in vitro protection of UVA protection provided by sunscreen products. The European Cosmetic Toiletry and Perfumery Association - COLIPA, Rue de la Loi 223/2, B-1040 Bruxelles, 2007. 

Cosmetics represent a global industry with their main markets to be found in the European Union (EU), the Unites States (US) and Japan with a value of 34.3, 25.7 and 11.9 billion euros, respectively, in 2004, according to data compiled by COLIPA, i.e. the European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (COLIPA, 2005). 

This nomenclature was officially adopted by the other two main legislations on cosmetic products over the world, i.e. in the EU and Japan frameworks, in 1996 and 2001, respectively, although a few discrepancies can be observed in case of colouring agents (see Section 4.1), botanical extracts, and a few trivial names. Nevertheless, the CTFA is woik-ing closely with the European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (COLIPA) and with Japan s Cosmetic Industry Association (JCIA) in order to harmonise these final discrepancies. 

The Commission, the Member States and the European Cosmetic Industry, represented by COLIPA (the European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association), worked on these physical/chemical methods of analysis between 1980 and 1996. The first European directive on cosmetic methods of analysis (80/1335/EEC) included analytical methods for only a few substances used in cosmetic products however, it also described aspects related to sampling and sample pre-treatment according the type and physical state of the cosmetic preparation. The number of methods developed for cosmetic analysis has increased in successive directives, and to date, six other directives have been published (82/434/EEC, 83/514/EEC, 85/490/EEC, 93/73/EEC, 95/32/EC, 96/45/EC) of which two have been modified to improve some of the methods (87/143/EEC, 90/207/EEC). The European Commission edited a document (European Commission, 1999) in which all the aforementioned directives are compiled and described. 

The Cosmetics Industry of Europe, Japan, US and South Africa, represented by their associations, the European Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (COLIPA) the Japanese Cosmetic Industry Association (JCIA) the US Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CTFA) and the South African CTFA), signed the International SPF Test Method in June 2006 (COLIPA, 2006). 

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