On April 9, 2014 the SCCS had adopted, by written procedure, an Addendum to the Notes of Guidance for the Testing of Cosmetic Ingredients and their Safety Evaluation replaces the section 3-4.7 Mutagenicity/Genotoxicity and 3-4.8 Carcinogenicity of the Notes of Guidance 8th revision, from pages 26 to 29. After the commenting period of four week, a revision of this Addendum has been published on 22 October 2014.