The Canadian government has adopted ministerial conditions forbidding the use of octanamide, n-hydroxy- in cosmetics. The substance, also known as caprylhydroxamic acid, is used as a preservative and chelating agent in some consumer goods. The Canadian...
Circular Action Alliance (CAA) is the Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) approved to implement Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for paper and packaging in California and Colorado, and the only paper and packaging PRO that submitted a program plan in...
Severe flooding has prompted Brazil’s health regulatory agency (ANVISA) to temporarily waive authorisation requirements for importing certain food, cosmetics, sanitisers and hygiene products subject to health inspection. Under the 10 May resolution (RDC No 866,...
Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has proposed changing the regulations applicable to the manufacture and import of special purpose cosmetics by making the requirements the same as for general cosmetics. The proposed amendment, which was published via a...
In October 2023, the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Egypt announced the non-applicability of the provisions of Decrees 991/2015 and 43/2016 to cosmetics that have already obtained an import approval from the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA). It can be accessed here...