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Stops unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices in the marketplace
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
Vaccines and tissue and tissue products
What is the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)?
This ingredient is an acid used in products marketed for a variety of purposes such as smoothing cleansing pores, and improving skin condition skin condition in general. In products, this ingredient causes exfoliation, or shedding of the surface skin.
What are Alpha Hydroxy Acids?
This rule now explicitly addresses the FDA’s longstanding position that CGMPs address allergen cross-contact.
What is Preventive Control for Human Food?
Skincare products containing sunscreens, anti-aging, or other active ingredients are regulated as
What are cosmetics and drugs?
Regulates aspects of alcohol production, importation, wholesale distribution, labeling, and advertising
What is the Department of the Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)?
Surgical implants and prosthetics
What is the Center for Devices and Radiological Health?
These ingredients are “additives” subject to a strict system of approval under U.S. law [Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), sec. 721; 21 U.S.C. 379e]. Except in the case of coal-tar hair dyes, violations of this additive are a common reason for detaining imported cosmetic products offered for entry into this country. They can be subject or exempt from certification.
What are color additives?
The final rule requires that importers perform certain risk-based activities to verify that food imported into the United States has been produced in a manner that meets applicable U.S. safety standards.
What is the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP rule)?
What ingredients can often be found in cosmetics and foods, as well as air fresheners?
What are essential oils?
Works to ensure the safety of consumer products such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, household chemicals, and other products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard
What is the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)?
Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs
What is the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research?
This is a word describing ingredients, also commonly used in other products, such as shampoos, shower gels, shaving creams, and body lotions. Even some products labeled “unscented” may contain these types of ingredients. Examples include Perfume, Cologne and Aftershave.
What is a fragrance?
The goal of this rule is to prevent practices during transportation that create food safety risks, such as failure to properly refrigerate food, inadequate cleaning of vehicles between loads, and failure to properly protect food.
What is the FSMA Final Rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food?
The only FDA approved glow-in-the-dark color additive.
What is luminescent zinc sulfide?
Regulates many aspects of pesticides and sets limits on how much of a pesticide may be used on food during growing and processing, and how much can remain on the food you buy
What is the Department of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
Smokeless tobacco
What is the Center for Tobacco Products?
This is a naturally occurring mineral, mined from the earth, composed of magnesium, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen.
What is talc?
This rule establishes, for the first time, science-based minimum standards for the safe growing, harvesting, packing, and holding of fruits and vegetables grown for human consumption.
What is the Produce Safety rule?
Synthetic colors for cosmetics that do not require batch certification.
What are coal-tar dyes?
Regulates aspects of the safety and labeling of traditional (non-game) meats, poultry, and certain egg products
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service?
Animal feed including pet food
What is the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)?
This is a family of related chemicals that are commonly used as preservatives in cosmetic products. Preservatives may be used in cosmetics to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria and mold, in order to protect both the products and consumers. Examples include methylparaben, propylparaben, butylparaben, and ethylparaben.
What is Parabens?
Facilities that are required to register with section 415 of the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act must comply with the requirements for risk-based preventive controls mandated by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) as well as the modernized Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMPs) of this rule (unless an exemption applies).
What is the Preventive Control for Human Food?
Popular hair care product that was found to release formaldehyde when heated.
What is Brazilian Blowout?