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Data about ingredients of contaminated & recalled products
About microbial contaminated products that has been recalled, is there any data or report that shows what was the ingredients and pH of that product?
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The FDA periodically issues some recall reports on the following website. In it you can see the name of the product (which consequently takes you to the list of ingredients if you search for it) as well as information such as the reason for the recall, the responsible company, classification, etc. They also often specify the affected lots and their origin, but in many cases some information is missing. As for pH, I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm#tabNav_advancedSearch
Example:
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=192665
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Enforcement reports do not offer ingredients or pH. It will take some effort - but as Lab said, you typically can find such data by internet search - pH will be on SDS.
This is often only useful immediately after the recall. Product search may find only “discontinued” or, if product maintained, a reformulated version. -
@Abdullah - you would have to search the info yourself. Look up the product, then find the ingredient list, then see what preservative they are using. The FDA doesn’t collect this info.
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@Perry i did so. The problem is that when we search about ingredients of a recalled product in Google, it shows ingredients that they are currently using that may definitely be different and improved from the contaminated batch.
I search ingredients of a recalled contaminated product and it had DMDM hydantoin, methyl & Propyl Paraben and EDTA in results from Google search.
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@Abdullah - It wouldn’t be surprising that there was a recall even with a product that had a robust preservative system like you described. Cosmetics are not designed to be aseptic so even the best preservative system can fail. I would say most of the cause of recalls is due to inadequately clean manufacturing facilities.
I’d add that since a greater number of cosmetics that are produced use a good preservative system, you would expect more instances of recalls with good preservative systems than with bad.
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Perry said:@Abdullah - It wouldn’t be surprising that there was a recall even with a product that had a robust preservative system like you described. Cosmetics are not designed to be aseptic so even the best preservative system can fail. I would say most of the cause of recalls is due to inadequately clean manufacturing facilities.
I’d add that since a greater number of cosmetics that are produced use a good preservative system, you would expect more instances of recalls with good preservative systems than with bad.
Thanks
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