ICMAD Clutches To House Cosmetics Bill Before Specter Of ‘Activist FDA’
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Locke Lord attorney Sharon Blinkoff, general counsel for the small-business trade group, says the newly introduced Safe Cosmetics Modernization Act is crafted to update cosmetics regulations without making room for oppressive oversight or a revival of the aggressively conservative FDA of decades past.
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