BOVINE TISSUE-CONTAINING COSMETICS MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
BOVINE TISSUE-CONTAINING COSMETICS MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS and manufacturers and importers of dietary supplements containing bovine-derived tissue are being urged by FDA to develop "plans for ensuring, with a high degree of certainty, that specific bovine- derived materials" from countries where bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) exists "are not used." In an Aug. 17 open letter to "manufacturers and importers" of cosmetics and dietary supplements, FDA Interim Deputy Commissioner for Operations Linda Suydam alerted companies to the need of avoiding bovine tissues or extracts from countries where BSE, a transmissible, "uniformly fatal" neurological disease, has been reported.