For Immediate Release: July 21st, 2010
Contact: Shannon Coughlin, 415-336-2246; scoughlin@breastcancerfund.org (Breast Cancer Fund); Stacy Malkan, 510 848-5701 stacy@safecosmetics.org (Author, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry); Leeann Brown, 202-939-9146, leeann@ewg.org (Environmental Working Group)

New Bill in Congress Would Reform Law on Toxics in Personal Care Products

WASHINGTON, July 21 –For the first time in 70 years, Congress is poised to close the gaping holes in the outdated federal law that allows chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other illnesses in the products we use on our bodies every day.

Today, Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., introduced the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, (HR 5786), which gives the Food and Drug Administration authority to ensure that personal care products are free of harmful ingredients. Existing law, passed in 1938, granted decision-making about ingredient safety to the cosmetics industry.

“Harmful chemicals have no place in the products we put on our bodies or on our children’s bodies,” said Rep. Schakowsky. “Our cosmetics laws are woefully out of date—manufacturers aren’t even required to disclose all their ingredients on labels, leaving Americans unknowingly exposed to harmful mystery ingredients. This bill will finally protect those consumers.” Read more at Campaign For Safe Cosmetics….

I wonder if it has anything to do with the new video….The Story Of Cosmetics.

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