Lead acetate’s use as a color additive in cosmetic products will no longer be authorized in the US beginning on 6 January 2022, and the agency will exercise enforcement discretion for a year afterward. A 2018 hearing request from hair dye marketer Combe Inc. was denied by the agency on 7 October.   

Agency safety communication says needle-free dermal filler “pens” sold OTC on social media could pose a serious risk to consumers. It's aware of serious injuries, including  permanent harm to skin, lips, or eyes with the use of needle-free devices for injection of lip and facial fillers.

FDA makes withdrawal effective on 31 December, also the deadline for firms manufacturing or compounding alcohol-based hand sanitizer products, and making alcohol for those products under temporary guidances, to cease production.

Consumers can contact Coppertone for refunds for aerosol sunscreens found to contain benzene, a human carcinogen that should not adversely affect users at levels detected, the Beiersdorf brand says. More cosmetics regulatory and legal news in brief.

At NAD conference, Commissioner Slaughter identified “erroneous points of conventional wisdom that tend to undergird legal and policy debate about digital surveillance,” starting with privacy being “the key issue” and including “the FTC is toothless, absent new federal legislation.”

Dark patterns, a “kind of a scary new phrase,” are “design choices that that manipulate users on a website into making choices that they wouldn't otherwise make,” says advertising law attorney Amy Ralph Mudge.

At NAD conference, Commissioner Slaughter identified “erroneous points of conventional wisdom that tend to undergird legal and policy debate about digital surveillance,” starting with privacy being “the key issue” and including “the FTC is toothless, absent new federal legislation.”

In January, the California Department of Public Health quietly added cosmetics to the list of products deemed adulterated if they contain cannabidiol or other hemp-derived substances, along with food products and dietary supplements. All that will change if/when Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB-45.

Acting commissioner Woodcock reminds manufacturers and marketers that a consumer’s exposure to cannabidiol and other cannabinoids likely comes from using multiple products daily. “How do you control exposure of people in a nonprescription setting?”

Legislation approved by Mexico’s Senate “also bans the manufacture, import and marketing of cosmetics tested on animals elsewhere in the world,” according to Humane Society International. Once ratified, the law will give cosmetics manufacturers two years to bring their operations into compliance.

CFSAN Office of Dietary Supplement Programs tells Charlotte’s Web and Irwin Naturals that not providing sufficient evidence of a reasonable assumption of safety for an NDI's intended use wasn’t the only reason each notification was rejected.

CDER would receive $17m less in Senate appropriations bill compared to House veion, while CFSAN's total would be nearly $10m less. Overall,  Senate bill includes around $50.4m less in funding for FDA than House bill.

Consumers can contact Coppertone for refunds for aerosol sunscreens found to contain benzene, a human carcinogen that should not adversely affect users at levels detected, the Beiersdorf brand says. More cosmetics regulatory and legal news in brief.

The EU Court of Justice will consider whether the EU General Court erred in affirming ECHA decisions that require Symrise to conduct new animal testing to assess the reproductive and other health effects of UV filters homosalate and octisalate. In recent failed bids for interim relief, Symrise argued that the animal testing is likely to cause “irreparable damage” to its interests.

Consumers nationwide are entitled to damages awards for physical injuries and economic harm incurred from purchasing and using ELC’s reformulated La Mer Eye Concentrate, according to a class action complaint against The Estee Lauder Companies in Illinois’ Northern District. ELC’s motion to dismiss is pending.

Putative class actions against sunscreen product manufacturers for alleged violations of federal and state laws due to benzene contamination can be traced to testing reported in May by independent quality assurance firm Valisure, which bills itself as “the pharmacy that checks.”

Walgreen Co. seeks to dismiss allegations in California’s Northern District that it unlawfully charges more for its OTC Hair Regrowth Treatment for women compared with a “functionally equivalent” offering for men. The suit follows “pink tax” litigation concerning Dove antiperspirants that defendants dismissed in July 2020, a decision affirmed by the Eighth Circuit in May.

Mary Agrotechnologies CEO Frank Qin says he is “not too concerned” about China's recent  CBD cosmetics ban, despite his company's plans to build a 150,000 square-foot cultivation and extraction plant in Yunnan, with the aim of supplying the domestic CBD market and exporting overseas.