Questions to Ask Your Regulatory Staff/Consultant - New California Regulation

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: Cosmetic Fragrance and Flavor Ingredient Right to Know Act

      Question: What is this new Act?

This was recently signed into law in the State of California and requires the manufacturer of a product sold in California to disclose certain ingredients and certain allergens at particular concentrations listed on defined lists to the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control.  The list of products with these ingredients and their associated health hazards will be posted to the public by the Division of Environmental and Occupational Disease Control. The compliancy date for this one is fairly soon on January 1, 2022, so companies may want to get a jump start now collecting this information.

About the Author:

Ariana Farina is a Regulatory and Quality Systems Consultant to the Cosmetics  and Personal Care Products Industry. She has over seventeen years of experience advising hundreds of brands and manufacturing facilities worldwide on regulatory and quality systems topics. She has acted as a guest lecturer at colleges and a speaker at conferences. She also developed and taught a regulatory course for FIDM University.