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French Anses delays the publication of its work programme

On 6 January 2025, Anses, which is now responsible for assessing cosmetic substances and cosmetovigilance in France, announced that it was postponing publication of its work programme for 2025, as it did not currently know what resources it would have available for the year.

ED Lists updated

Since 2020, the “Endocrine Disruptor Lists” website, compiled and updated by five national authorities in European Union Member States, has compiled a list of substances known or suspected to act as endocrine disruptors. The latest update was published at the end of December 2024.

Revision of the "Sunscreen Products" Recommendation: the opinion of French Anses

As part of the ongoing review of the 2006 European Commission’s Recommendation “on the efficacy of sunscreen products and the claims made relating thereto”, known as the “Sunscreen Products” Recommendation, the French Anses has just published an opinion setting out its position on all the points currently under discussion.

Anses takes up the "Glyoxylic acid" dossier

Following on from the Académie de Médecine, it is now the Anses that is warning of the risks associated with hair straightening products containing glyoxylic acid. The French agency advises against the use of this type of product and plans to take the matter to European level.

Consultation on the Anses draft RMOA on lithium and its salts

On 7 October 2024, the French government opened a public consultation on a draft RMOA (Regulatory Management Options Analysis) drawn up by Anses. After an initial proposal for the CLH classification of lithium salts, notably as reprotoxic substances, it is now also a question of a classification as endocrine disrupters.

Monday, January 16, 2017

ANSM's injunction to Nature & Découvertes

It is in the name of"non-compliance and significant breaches" that the ANSM has just sent Nature & Découvertes an injunction to bring its Toussus-...

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

ANSM: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics (2/2)

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At the regulatory congress organized by the Cosmetic Valley in Chartres, France, in November 2016, Sophie Roques-Violin and Vanessa Picot, both from t...

Monday, January 9, 2017

ANSM: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics (1/2)

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At the regulatory congress organized by the Cosmetic Valley in Chartres, France, in November 2016, Sophie Roques-Violin, Director of the Market Survei...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Cosmetic counterfeiting: French customs crackdown

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The National Directorate of Intelligence and Customs Investigations (DNRED) announced on 4 January that it had searched two laboratories manufacturing...

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

DGCCRF: results of the 2016 controls on cosmetics

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At the Cosmetic Valley regulatory congress in Chartres in November 2016, Raphaëlle Bove, Director of the Health Products and Services & Human Serv...

Monday, August 22, 2016

Cosmetics in the ANSM activity report 2015

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At the beginning of August, the ANSM (Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé) published its activity report for the year ...

Monday, August 22, 2016

Artificial nails: risks and precautions to take

The products and techniques used to apply or remove artificial nails are not risk-free for natural nails or the tissues around them. These practices a...

Monday, August 1, 2016

ANSM: a wave of injunctions to cosmetic companies

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At the end of July, the ANSM is updating its files and has just published no less than four decisions ordering the companies concerned to comply with ...

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Skin whitening products: the DGCCRF alert

The DGCCRF once again draws consumers' attention to the use of lightening creams, products that can be dangerous, especially when they contain prohibi...

Thursday, April 28, 2016

2015 DGCCRF review: key elements for the cosmetic industry

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Since the entry into force of the Consumer Affairs Act of 17 March 2014 (the"Hamon Act"), the powers of the General Directorate for Competition, Consu...

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The ANSM bans cosmetics JF Lazartigue manufactured in Trappes

This ANSM decision is dated 12 April 2016. It orders the suspension of the manufacture, export, distribution and placing on the market of cosmetic pro...

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

French pressure for a ban on MIT

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Following a report by ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) on the risks associated with Methylisothiazol...