Sunscreen petitions
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA will "give priority" to reviews of time and extent applications (TEAs) submitted by firms that previously petitioned agency to include specific foreign-marketed ingredients in sunscreen monograph, FDA reiterates in six letters to ingredient suppliers and their counsel. As outlined in Jan. 23 final reg, citizen petitions must be converted to TEAs "within 120 days" of rule's publication (1"The Rose Sheet" Jan. 28, 2002, p. 9). Letters to Ciba Specialty Chemicals, EM Industries, BASF counsel and Haarmann & Reimer counsel, dated from April 19 through April 25, advise firms that agency does not "intend to take further action" on firms' respective petitions...