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On March 5, 2021, the European Commission’s (EC) Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) published its final opinion on copper (nano) and colloidal copper (nano). According to the final opinion, nine manufacturers notified the EC about 36 different products containing nanosized copper. After initial evaluation and a request for additional information, two manufacturers withdrew their products from the notification, and these seven products were excluded from evaluation, resulting in the final evaluation of 29 nanosized copper products produced by seven manufacturers. For three different copper nanomaterials, notification files were provided. The final opinion states that for all three copper nanomaterials, “the notified files were insufficient regarding their characterisation and for conducting a safety evaluation.” All copper nanomaterials claimed to have antimicrobial activity. Most files contained declarations of safety wi
Some of the world’s most popular sunscreens risk causing cancer if left on the shelf too long because a commonly used sun protection factor breaks down into a harmful ingredient, US and French researchers claim.
If left for a year at room temperature, one of the key ingredients in sunscreens breaks down into benzophenone, a “mutagen, carcinogen, and endocrine disruptor”, the study in the
Chemical Research in Toxicology review said.
Scientists at CNRS, the Sorbonne and the Oceanological Observatory in Banyuls-sur-Mer in France and the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in the US, made the discovery after experiments on nine commercial sunscreen products from the EU and eight from the US.
European Commission’s EC Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety SCCS posted a final opinion entitled Scientific Advice on the Safety of Nanomaterials in Cosmetics.
Consumer health protection needs a zero tolerance approach across the beauty and personal care industry (Getty Images) The level of non-compliance in Europe on required fragrance allergen labelling and declarations in beauty products is unsatisfactory and must change given the serious consumer health implications, says the Council of Europe’s European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM).
Earlier this week the Council of Europe/EDQM released findings from a surveillance study conducted between 2018 and 2020 on fragrance allergens in beauty and personal care products. Conducted by EDQM’s European Network of Official Cosmetics Control Laboratories (OCCLs), findings showed 7.7% of the 932 samples were non-compliant with legislative requirements due to missing or false declaration of allergenic fragrance compounds. Moreover, 3.1% of products marketed ‘perfume-free’ contained fragrance compounds and 41% of perfume products