Warning links retailers to multiple manufacturers inspected after FDASIA in 2012 pointed FDA toward inspecting all ex-US firms supplying products available in US but that had yet to be inspected for compliance. Manufacturers also were placed on import alerts to prevent their products, including cosmetics as well as drugs, from reaching US.

Reportedly, the Council of the European Union is considering member state objections and requests to extend the current scrutiny period beyond 4 December for a Commission delegated regulation that would classify titanium dioxide as a Category 2 carcinogen by inhalation. The move threatens to impact the marketing of sunscreens and other cosmetics in the EU that contain respirable TiO2 particles.

Additional recent recalls include 19,000 bottles of product marketed by Fitoterapia USA and labeled as liquid vitamin C but found to contain erectile dysfunction drug taldalafil .Ongoing testing of ranitidine drugs by FDA and manufacturers led to Aurobindo Pharma USA recall of one lot of OTC 150-mg tablets.

On the bright side in North America, the Revlon brand has reclaimed its lead in the US mass lip segment, and both Revlon and Almay are off to strong starts in the fourth quarter, company leadership says. The firm continues to build the international and digital sides of its business in search of sustainable growth outside of Elizabeth Arden.

Reportedly, the Council of the European Union is considering member state objections and requests to extend the current scrutiny period beyond 4 December for a Commission delegated regulation that would classify titanium dioxide as a Category 2 carcinogen by inhalation. The move threatens to impact the marketing of sunscreens and other cosmetics in the EU that contain respirable TiO2 particles.

Additional recent recalls include 19,000 bottles of product marketed by Fitoterapia USA and labeled as liquid vitamin C but found to contain erectile dysfunction drug taldalafil .Ongoing testing of ranitidine drugs by FDA and manufacturers led to Aurobindo Pharma USA recall of one lot of OTC 150-mg tablets.

Former Senate Appropriations Committee staffer expects FDA's FY 2020 budget will not be finalized until early next year and that it will be close to the sum in the appropriations bill passed by the Senate.

Stephen Hahn will go before the Senate health committee less than three weeks after being nominated. Pink Sheet's historical charts illustrate how a long wait and a quick hearing could mean a rapid confirmation.

The German firm’s sales increased 6% over the first nine months of fiscal 2019, led by La Prairie luxury, but its mass-market business remains a strategic priority. Bigger digital investments, natural skin-care launches and a sharpened focus on Nivea development in China should help spur growth in the segment.

Following a string of cases in Australia in which illegal prescription medicines and toxic or dangerous substances have been found in sports supplements, the country's medicines agency is consulting on whether these products should be in future regulated as medicines.  

NJ senators say although FDA deems dietary ingredients and food additives with CBD as unlawful, in the past three years more than 1,500 CBD products have come to market “without a clear approach for regulation or any plan from the FDA to balance consumer access and protect consumer health.”

Maker of single-dose topical swabs indicated for application to sores and open wounds asked o respond with information including a "thorough remediation plan to install and operate a suitable water system." FDA inspectors determined Swabplus didn't correct problem found in a 2016 inspection of failing to test incoming components.

Nonprofit advocacy group says one third of echinacea and turmeric supplements it tested contained ingredients in amounts lower than labeled or elevated levels of lead or bacteria. Industry groups say CR used "arbitrary" standards based on preconceived, critical view of US supplement regulation.