A new draft implementing act amending Regulation 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of Methyl-N-methylanthranilate (M-N-MA) in cosmetic products has been published. This New Draft Implementing Act amending Regulation has been...
The Commission makes a request for a scientific advice to the SCCS on the safety of Triclocarban and Triclosan as substances with potential endocrine disrupting properties in cosmetic products. On November 2018, the Commission adopted a review of Regulation (EC) No...
The Commission makes a request for a scientific opinion to the SCCS on the safety of alpha and beta-arbutin in cosmetic products. Alpha-arbutin (α-arbutin) and the structurally related compound (optical isomer) beta-arbutin (β-arbutin) are not currently regulated by...
The Commission has requested the SCCS to carry out a safety assessment of fullerenes and hydroxylated fullerenes. Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 states that "nanomaterial" means an insoluble or biopersistent and intentionally manufactured material with one or more...
The SCCS publishes its final opinion on the nanomaterials in cosmetic ingredient Platinum (nano) and its derivatives (nano). On April 16, the preliminary opinion of the SCSS on this nanomaterial was published. After considered all the scientific information provided,...
The SCCS has published its final opinion on the nanomaterials in cosmetic ingredient Gold (nano) and its derivatives (nano). On April 16, the SCSS published the preliminary opinion of Gold (nano) and its derivatives (nano). After considered all the scientific...
The SCCS publishes its final opinion on the cosmetic ingredient Homosalate. On November 6, 2020, the preliminary opinion of the SCSS was published. After considered all the scientific information provided, the SCCS concludes that on the basis of safety assessment of...
The European Commission has published a corrigenda to Regulation 2021/850 that introduced modifications and corrections to Annex II and modifications to Annexes III, IV and VI of Regulation 1223/2009 on cosmetic products by not assigning numbers to the entries...
As previously reported, the ECHA Member State Committee did not agree to identify Resorcinol as a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) due to its endocrine disrupting properties. However, subsequently, the Member State Commission notes that medical case reports...
On May 28, the SCCS working group meeting on methodologies took place. The following topics were discussed at this meeting: Threshold for Toxicological Concern (TTC) Organ on-chip (OoC) Thyroid function - This will be helpful in particular as the SCCS is going through...
On May 26, the SCCS Working Group meeting on cosmetic ingredients took place. New mandate and draft opinions were discussed at this meeting. New mandate: Corringendum on final opinion SCCS/1616/20 on fragrance methyl-N-methylanthranilate The following draft opinions...
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/849 has been published. This Delegated Regulation is the 17th adaptation of the ATP (Adaptation to Technical and Scientific Progress) of the CLP (Classification, Labeling and Packaging of substances). For the preparation of this...