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Monday, March 28, 2011Congresses

COSMED : Interesting Conferences about Regulation

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COSMED, the French Association of small-and medium-sized cosmetics manufacturers, held its 11th Conference in Marseille on March 24. Many people attended and got different views on the changes due to the new Regulation, which will be mandatory in 2013. It was also a time for informal exchanges between cosmetics professionals. CosmeticOBS-L'Observatoire des Cosmétiques was there and reports.

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March  28,  2011

From Afssaps

As for all the previous Conferences held by COSMED , Afssaps (the French Agency for Safety) was invited to report about its action and its plan for the future.

While in 2010, 4 inspectors performed 52 controls, in 2011, 28 are planned.

Pay attention to the kits
During the 2010 campaign, Afssaps inspections, in cooperation with inspectors from the DGCCRF (the French Agency in command of consumers and fraud) targeted "kits" that consumers may use to "manufacture" their own products at home. A good idea! No batch number and traceability troubles, safety concerns, substandard microbiology quality of 50% of the products, the "do-it-yourself" is not that good and amusing! The final report is not yet available, but Cosmetics Observatory will tell you more then!

Target of the soon-to-come campaign: men’s cosmetics

Toxic molecules in our cosmetics
The report about random inspections targets two products in which NDELA (or n-Nitrosodiethanolamine) was found. NDELA is a substance from the nitrosamines family, classified as CMR due to its possible carcinogenic effect; it may contaminate cosmetics. Up to 50µg/kg is allowed by regulation. In a to-be-rinsed-off product, imported from Korea, 170 µg/kg was detected, and 150µg/kg in another product. …

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