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Drug Products Containing Carbomers Manufactured With Benzene

What are Carbomers and why do some contain benzene? Carbomers are a group of polymers that are widely used as inactive ingredients in drug products as fillers, emulsifiers, gelling agents, and binding agents.  Some carbomers are manufactured using benzene as a polymerization solvent, whilst others employ a benzene-free manufacturing process.

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GAO Assessment of FDA Efforts to Implement MoCRA

The Modernization of Cosmetic Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) was enacted on December 29, 2022 and is the most significant expansion of FDA’s authority to regulate cosmetics since the enactment of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938.  On the one-year anniversary of the enactment of MoCRA, the

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Preservative Efficacy Testing: USP 51 Versus PCPC

As its name suggests, Preservative Efficacy Testing (PET) is a procedure for determining the effectiveness of a product’s preservative system after controlled quantities of test microorganisms have been introduced.  Antimicrobial Preservative Efficacy testing is essential to cosmetic/personal care and drug manufacturers for identifying optimal preservative combination(s) and concentrations(s) of preservatives

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Cosmetic Safety in Today’s Marketplace

Personal care and beauty products are manufactured using a selection of approximately 10,500 unique chemical ingredients, so it’s imperative that products are properly tested before reaching the marketplace. As stated on the EWG’s Cosmetics Database, the average person uses nine products daily and in some cases, women were applying 15

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