An FDA guidance lifts a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the future of OTC spray sunscreens while also closing a curtain on the use of other non-traditional delivery formats with the products.
Spray Sunscreens Stay In FDA Enforcement Discretion Shade
CDER's enforcement policy guidance for OTC monograph sunscreens clarifies that spray sunscreens are included in the agency's enforcement discretion. But CDER closes the door on other dosage forms that it also identified in its 2011 ANPR for whether delivery formats other than lotions, creams or other traditional forms would be eligible for the monograph.
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Linda Katz, director of the Office of Cosmetics and Colors at the US Food and Drug Administration, is credited with leading efforts toward modernization of cosmetics regulations as she retires after 22 years at the helm.
FDA publishes the first proposed rule under the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act – a testing method for detecting asbestos in talc-containing cosmetics.
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The Washington State Department of Ecology publishes ‘Interim Policy on Lead in Cosmetics’ which provides safe harbor options for cosmetic products struggling with the 1ppm limit under the state’s Toxic Free Cosmetics Act, while the department gathers information under a newly opened rulemaking to ‘identify a feasible approach to regulating lead in cosmetic products.’
Many small US and independent beauty brands are still unfamiliar with the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act, as are owners of beauty brands based outside the US; the lack of education about the regulation is making many stakeholders at risk for non-compliance.