U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone is celebrating the passage of a law aimed at protecting consumers’ health. The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act allows the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cosmetic and personal products. Under the new law, companies are required to register product ingredients with the FDA. The agency can also require specific testing standards and issue recalls.
Pallone (D-6th) said the law will affect “any kind of lotion, shampoo, makeup, deodorant, hair dye, baby powder, toothpaste, tanning lotion. All these things are cosmetics. But I think most people think that when they use any of those products that somehow they’ve been approved as safe or that the representation of their use has been tested in someway by the FDA. And that was simply not true.”
The law represents the first update of cosmetics safety laws in the United States in more than 80 years.
