Personal Care Products Safety Act Would Improve Cosmetics Safety

The Personal Care Products Safety Act, a bipartisan bill, introduced by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J,) would reform regulation of personal care products, requiring companies to ensure that their products are safe before marketing them and giving FDA the tools it needs to protect the public.

The act would empower FDA to review the safety of ingredients:

• Each year, the agency would do a safety review of five ingredients and contaminants. At the outset, these would include formaldehyde-releasing chemicals and a long-chained paraben.

The act would give FDA the same tools for ensuring the safety of personal care products as it uses to regulate food and drugs:

• Companies would be required to register facilities.
• Companies would be required to disclose ingredients they use to FDA.
• Manufacturers would be required to ensure that products are made in a clean environment.
• FDA could inspect factories and records.
• Companies would be required to report serious adverse events to FDA within 15 days.
• FDA could require recalls of dangerous products.
• FDA could require specific labeling and warnings for products that contain ingredients not suitable for all populations.

Cosmetics companies would provide $20.6 million annually in fee revenue.

• Click here to view the Personal Care Products Safety Act fact sheet.
• Read S.1113 - Personal Care Products Safety Act.
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