Personal Care Products Council

Personal Care Products Council. Concentration of use by FDA product category microbial polysaccharides 2011.10 pages. 

Numerous cosmetic trade organizations exist. Foremost among them are the Personal Care Products Council (PPC) formerly CTFA the European Cosmetics Industries Federation (COLIPA) and the Japanese Cosmetic Industry Association (JCIA). These organizations provide member companies with regulatory and technical information and supply documentation on the industry s practices to governments and consumers. The cosmetic industry supports a number of trade journals. Comprehensive annual listings of companies and individual products are available (34). 

International Cosmetics Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, 12th ed.. Personal Care Products Council, Washington, D.C., 2008. 

Botanicals, Cross Reference of Latin Binomials and Common Names, Personal Care Products Council, www.personalcarecouncil.org, accessed Jan. 2009. 

Examples of shampoo formulations are given in Table 3.1. The names of the ingredients are those designated by the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) formerly the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CTFA). 

Some general skin-care products are indicated within the cosmetic classification specified in Annex 1 of the EU Cosmetics Directive (European Commission, Council Directive 76/768/EEC). The following list shows the EU classification of skin-care cosmetic products (excluding cosmetics for other parts of the body—such as hair or nails— perfumes, personal hygiene and decorative products) ... 

Healthy People 2010 Objectives from the US. Deparunent of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has made the facts available relevant to occupational injuries and illnesses. Every five seconds a worker is injured. Every ten seconds a worker is temporarily or permanently disabled. Each day, an average of 137 persons die from work-related diseases, and an additional 17 die from workplace injuries on the job. Each year, about 70 youths under 18 years of age die from injuries at work and 70,000 require treatment in a hospital anergency room. In 1996, an estimated 11,000 workers were disabled each day due to work-related injuries. That same year, the National Safety Council estimated that on-the-job injuries cost society 121 billion, including lost wages, lost productivity, administrative expenses, health care, and other costs (National Safety Council Injury Facts, 2010). A study published in Jnly 1997 reports that the 1992 combined U.S. economic burden for occupational illnesses and injuries was an estimated 171 billion (U.S. Department of Conunerce, www.commerce.gov, 2001). 

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