Hydrocarbon cosmetics
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Consumer Product Safety Commission votes unanimously Oct. 16 to issue final rule requiring child-resistant packaging for certain hydrocarbon-containing cosmetics and household products. Jaiden Bryson Hydrocarbon Rule, named in memory of a California boy who died after aspirating baby oil last May, requires CRP for some baby oils, hair oils, sunscreens, makeup removers and nail enamel dryers that contain 10% or more hydrocarbons by weight and low viscosity. "Packaging is child-resistant, not child-proof," Chairman Ann Brown warns, cautioning parents to keep mineral oil-containing products away from children. Rule carries one-year effective date as recommended by CPSC staff during Oct. 11 briefing to commission (1"The Rose Sheet" Oct. 15, pp. 7-8)