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dinating efforts with allied trades to prepare
for upcoming meetings with CARB and
next steps.
FDA Proposal:
Assessing Safe Use
Levels for Fragrance
Allergens
Per FDA’s request, Fragrance Creators is
leading industry in dialogue with FDA on
its upcoming efforts in quantifying the
level of safe use of materials that have
been identified by the EU as being
fragrance allergens. This is the first time
FDA will be taking a step regarding the
fragrance ingredients on EU allergen list.
In December 2018, Fragrance Creators
met with Linda Katz, Director of FDA’s
Office
of Cosmetics
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two high ranking members of her team.
Fragrance Creators led this meeting, with
Research Institute for Fragrance Materials
(RIFM) staff taking center stage as the
technical expert, and PCPC there to
demonstrate industry’s coordination, i.e.,
industry value chain speaking with one
voice. The meeting exceeded expectations
and goals, and FDA agreed to have
subsequent meeting(s) with Fragrance
Creators and RIFM to speak in more detail
on key fragrance-related topics, such as
QRA2 and others.
Through coordination with RIFM
and the Personal Care Products Council
(PCPC) and communicating with IFRA,
Fragrance Creators will continue to
leverage opportunities to advocate for the
correct interpretation of the QRA model,
with the desired outcome of having a
consistent way of evaluating the safe-use
level of fragrance allergens.
Canada Parliament
Review of CEPA 1999
The Canadian government is currently
performing a comprehensive review of the
provisions and operation of the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA
1999), as is required by section 343 of
the Act to be done every five years. The
Standing Committee on Environment
and Sustainable Development submitted
its report, “Healthy Environment,
Healthy Canadians, Healthy Economy:
Strengthening the Canadian Environmental
Protection Act, 1999,” to the House
of Commons. Fragrance Creators
is collaborating with CEPA Internal
Coordinating Group (CEPA- ICG) to
analyze the recommendations and provide
feedback to the government. FN
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