Post by kickingfrog on Feb 6, 2011 16:54:23 GMT
Dental products, cosmetics
The ingredients of these and other 'cosmetics' (under EU law) must be listed.
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2008 No. 1284
CONSUMER PROTECTION
The Cosmetic Products
(Safety) Regulations 2008
…“cosmetic product” means any substance or preparation intended to be placed in contact with
the various external parts of the human body (epidermis, hair system, nails, lips and external
genital organs) or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity with a view
exclusively or mainly to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance,
correcting body odours, protecting them, or keeping them in good condition except where
such cleaning, perfuming, protecting, changing, keeping or correcting is wholly for the
purpose of treating or preventing disease;
“cosmetic product intended to come into contact with the mucous membranes” means a
cosmetic product intended to be applied in the vicinity of the eyes, on the lips, in the oral
cavity or to the external genital organs, and does not include any cosmetic product which is
intended to come into only brief contact with the skin;…
…No person shall supply a cosmetic product unless the packaging in which it is supplied bears,
in indelible, easily legible and visible lettering a list, preceded by the word ‘ingredients’ of the
ingredients in descending order of weight as they are added—
(a) an ingredient must be identified by the name provided for in the International
Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (INCI) or in the absence of such identification, by
its chemical name, its European Pharmacopoeia name, its International Non-proprietary
name (INN) as recommended by the World Health Organisation, its EINECS, ELINCS or
CAS identification reference or its colour index number…
www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/pdf/uksi_20081284_en.pdf
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