News:Congresses

EUDR: Everything you need to know about the "Deforestation-free" Regulation

It was due to come into force on 31 December 2024, but has been postponed for a year. And for good reason: nobody was ready, whether economic operators or the authorities. So there is still time to get to grips with it and prepare for it. At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, Thomas Delille, of the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, presented a decoding of what he called “a veritable jewel of regulatory engineering th...

Consumers and sun protection: the current situation

During the Cosmetic Days organised by Cosmed in early December 2024, Valérie Rager-Brossard, Director of Customer Relations at the Appinio research institute, presented an overview of the uses and understanding of sun protection products by French consumers. The findings were mixed…

French DGCCRF: an update on the 2023, 2024 and 2025 inspections

At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, DGCCRF representatives Virginie Gallerand, Nathalie Delion, Flore Pluvinage and Isabelle van Hamme presented the results of investigations carried out in 2023, gave an update on controls in 2024 and announced the outlook for 2025.

The implementation of French Anses' “cosmetics” missions

One year ago, Anses became a new player in the French cosmetics safety landscape. At the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, Sandrine Charles and Élodie Lontsi presented the implementation of their new missions concerning the vigilance and evaluation of cosmetic substances and products.

Perfumes & Cosmetics Congress 2024: the Q&A of the authorities

Following their respective speeches at the Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fragrance & Cosmetics, held on 20 and 21 November 2024, the representatives of the French cosmetics control authorities, the Anses and the DGCCRF, answered questions from congress attendees. On the menu: status of certain ingredients, claims, cosmetovigilance, control philosophies…

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The place of standards in cosmetics regulations

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European regulations, national laws, guidelines from various professional organizations… the regulations which apply to cosmetics ensue from several t...

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Current state of the luxury sector

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The luxury sector had mixed results in 2014: slowdown in China, tensions in Russia, disenchantment of traditional customers… So what will be the targe...

Monday, December 8, 2014

Evaluating packaging safely

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Now that Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 has taken effect, the product safety report must include ‘the relevant characteristics of packaging material, ...

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

ANSM: 2014 GMP inspections

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At the 12th congress in Chartres, after presenting an overview of their most recent cosmetics regulatory inspections, ANSM agents Thierry Thomas and V...

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Sustainable cosmetics: the impact of consumers

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Sustainable development is not just the responsibility of product manufacturers. All players throughout the chain have a role to play, from raw materi...

Monday, December 1, 2014

ANSM: the 2014 regulatory inspections

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The congress in Chartres, France, is usually an opportunity for ANSM representatives (the French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Saf...

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Cosmetics regulations: FEBEA Q&A in Chartres

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Triman logo, notification of establishment, denaturing alcohol, claims (without, hypoallergenic, anti-wrinkle, etc.), cosmetics tax and reporting sale...

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Cosmetics Regulation: Europe on stand-by

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It came into force on July 11, 2013, but it has not been fully implemented yet. There are still numerous outstanding ‘details’, and not necessarily mi...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Measuring the psychosocial influence of cosmetics

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Cosmetic products cannot be evaluated in terms of efficacy or safety alone. A lot of research now focuses on sensory analysis techniques, which identi...

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Cosmetics and sustainable development: everyone wins!

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Beauty and Society: this was one the themes dealt with at the 28th IFSCC congress held on 27-30 October 2014 in Paris, with a whole day of conferences...

Monday, November 10, 2014

Safety assessment and alternative methods: an update with Vera Rogiers

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Since animal experimentation was prohibited in the cosmetics industry, the challenge has been to keep assessing the safety of products and their ingre...

Thursday, November 6, 2014

In search of a 'natural’ preservative

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Some 464 posters were exposed on the fringes of the conference programme at the 28th IFSCC congress held from October 27-30, 2014 in Paris. All of the...