The Personal Care Products Council has a vision for marrying the Cosmetic Ingredient Review’s expertise with FDA’s authority, which it hopes to package into reform legislation expected this year. While FDA has balked at formalizing CIR’s role under previous proposals, this one was inspired by a third-party review program for medical devices, making it potentially more palatable to the agency and lawmakers.
The Personal Care Products Council is lobbying for updated cosmetics regulations that would give the Cosmetic Ingredient Review a formal role in shaping ingredient safety decisions at the federal level.
CIR “forms the basis of safety for our industry, and now we are in a position to convince Congress to...