Questions to Ask your Regulatory Staff/Consultant - Ingredient Nomenclature

   This is a weekly post entitled “Questions to ask you Cosmetic/Personal Care Products Regulatory Staff or Consultant.” In this post I will provide tips to help maximize regulatory compliance.

     In my experience, most companies want to comply with the proper regulations. However, they do not always know the right questions to ask their staff or consultant to ensure they are covering all bases. This post will explore some ongoing regulatory topics, as well as some current hot topics.

     Topic of the week: Ingredient Nomenclature

     Question: What names or nomenclature must be used to list ingredients on a label?

    In order to know how to list ingredients on a label. One must look at the specific marketplace. Some marketplaces allow more than one name to be used for an ingredient on a label. Some marketplaces require local language translation of all or certain ingredients. Some marketplaces allow you to you to list more than one name in order to comply with different marketplaces. Some marketplaces specifically prohibit listing additional ingredient names on labels. One example of this is Vitamin C in the US. The US does not allow “Vitamin C” to be listed in parenthesis or next to the required INCI nomenclature.

About the Author:

Ariana Farina is a Regulatory and Quality Systems Consultant to the Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Industry. She has over thirteen years of experience advising hundreds of brands and manufacturing facilities worldwide on regulatory and quality systems topics.