FDA Adds “Trade Secret Ingredients” Page To Growing Cosmetics Website
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA’s website now includes a page discussing the bearing of trade secrets on cosmetic product labeling, and specifically why fragrance components can be identified generically as “fragrance.” The agency has been expanding its cosmetics web platform actively in 2014, adding information on adverse-event reporting and anti-aging skin treatments, among other subjects.
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