CIR Panel Focuses On Hair-Dye Ingredients, Troublesome Phenylenediamines
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Hair-dye ingredients dominated the June 4-5 meeting of the Cosmetic Ingredient Review Expert Panel in Washington, D.C., with the panel taking in a presentation meant to aid its review of the problematic phenylenediamine family before moving on to determine the fate of seven cosmetic ingredients in total
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