Cosmetic Safety Amendments

Summary

Cosmetic Safety Amendments - Title I: Cosmetic Safety - Sets forth procedures for the safety substantiation of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients. Places the burden on manufacturers of thoroughly testing their products for safety prior to offering them to the public. Authorizes the Food and Drug Administration to require premarket submission of safety test data when it believes such submission would better protect the safety of consumers. Empowers the Administration to requires specific safety testing which it believes is necessary to set screening levels for toxicity and sensitization of cosmetics, and to designate ingredients or classes of cosmetics which it finds present a significant risk of injury. Permits the Administration to prohibit ingredients, prescribe limits of tolerance, require additional labeling, or ban a cosmetic, if it finds that a product or ingredient presents a hazard. Title II: Registration and Compliance - Requires manufacturers: (1) to register with the Administration; (2) to submit formulas for cosmetic products to the Administration; and (3) to periodically forward to the Administration consumer complaints about adverse reactions to products. Broadens the Administration's inspection powers of cosmetic facilities, and allows it to administratively detain suspect products for up to 20 days, pending seizure. Title III: Cosmetic Labeling - Provides for ingredient, cautionary, and informational labeling of cosmetics to alert consumers with allergies about the particular contents of products so that they can avoid allergens. Title IV: General Provisions Concerning Cosmetics - Establishes a system, through poison control centers, to make information available when there has been ingestion of cosmetics. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to cooperate with the Small Business Administration in recommending loans to small cosmetics manufacturers to assist them in complying with the safety substantiation and good manufacturing provisions. Preempts State law with respect to labeling. Grants to the Administration substantive rulemaking power and sets forth procedures for issuing regulations and their judicial review. Authorizes the appointment of advisory committees to make recommendations to the Secretary regarding the administration of this Act.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 30 July 1976

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 7 May 1975

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