• Starting a cosmetic line

  FDA publishes new cosmetic making guidelines

  Posted by OldPerry on December 3, 2015 at 9:12 pm

  If you are a start-up or small cosmetic maker the FDA has put together some guidelines which might be helpful.

  See this article here

  http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/ResourcesForYou/Industry/ucm388736.htm

  RobertG replied 8 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  belassi

  Member

  December 4, 2015 at 2:45 am

  Thanks for that

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  braveheart

  Member

  December 10, 2015 at 12:48 am

  Reading through this new guide, the grey area of “Cosmeceuticals” is cleaned out and made clearer, it is either a drug or cosmetics, no more grey:
  http://www.fda.gov/Cosmetics/Labeling/Claims/ucm127064.htm

  
  

  Thanks Perry.
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  RobertG

  Member

  December 21, 2015 at 3:26 am

  The aforementioned statement about “cosmeceuticals” changes nothing and IMO isn’t even a clarification.  It doesn’t make anybody’s job easier or harder.  It’s still the case that some products are both cosmetics & drugs under state & federal law, & so subject to the laws regarding each.

  There are some categories of definitions in food & drug law such that a product’s satisfying the definition of one thereby is exempted from consider’n as the other.  For instance, FDA has the statutory authority to treat a product as either a drug or a medical device, but not both, if it has some properties of each, based on which it acts as primarily.  That’s not the case between drugs & cosmetics, however.

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