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  • Safety Testing for EU Market

    Posted by Anonymous on May 18, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    Are skin irritancy (patch tests) and eye irritancy compulsory for selling cosmetics in the EU, in addition to safety assessments? Thanks 

    Anonymous replied 8 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  • Bill_Toge

    Member
    May 18, 2016 at 2:05 pm

    no, they’re entirely optional

    the safety assessor usually extrapolates this from the raw material data

  • Anonymous

    Guest
    May 18, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    Thanks Bill_Toge. 

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