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Executive Editor - Health, Beauty and Wellness Insight
USA
19+ years of experience
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 14 Jan 2022
Formed by the FDA in fall 2018 and convened in early 2020 for a public meeting, the Interagency Working Group on Asbestos in Consumer Products maintains that electron microscopy should be a first-line method for detecting asbestos in cosmetic talc and talc-containing products, and that labs should report elongate mineral particles beyond those classically understood as asbestos.
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 18 Nov 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency does not have the jurisdiction to grant William D. Bush’s request, even if the petitioner had specified the “chemical mixtures” he wants banned or provided the level of data required to initiate proceedings under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 08 Oct 2021
At NAD 2021, Adam Waheed, an award-winning content creator with more than 17m social media followers, addressed challenges and legal risks that have escalated in recent years as influencer marketing opportunity exploded in the US and abroad.
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 17 Aug 2021
The agency’s recent request for contractor quotes cites infants and children, people of color, and immunosuppressed individuals among users whose “unique biological characteristics” could require special consideration in the evaluation of cosmetic ingredients. The FDA also is interested in accounting for unique physicochemical aspects of ingredients such as engineered nanomaterials.
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 27 Nov 2020
Farah Ahmed, president and CEO of the Fragrance Creators Association, discusses the trade group’s expansion in recent years beyond immediate regulatory and legislative concerns to a platform for robust member collaboration in the name of positively impacting the world.
Topic Business Strategies Cosmetics
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 08 Jun 2020
Charlotte’s Web is strengthening its DTC lead while growing its brick-and-mortar retail business, accelerating its pet product distribution and working to close its Abacus Health acquisition announced in March. The Boulder, CO-based CBD product manufacturer posted a 1% decline in net sales for the first quarter, but expects a rapid escalation in the second half of the year.
Topic Coronavirus
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 28 Nov 2019
Industry advocates working to support GRASE determinations for eight UV filters are faced with a dilemma. They would like to share nonpublic studies with the FDA on a confidential basis – at least to get initial temperature readings from the agency as to the studies’ usefulness in addressing data gaps – but under the current OTC monograph framework, no such pathway exists.
Topic FDA Regulation
HBW Insight
By Ryan Nelson 11 Jun 2019
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review’s newly figured margins of safety for single- and multi-paraben use in cosmetic products are dramatically lower than previous MOSs that informed the Expert Panel’s 2008 “safe as used” conclusions. Whether the panel still deems the MOSs sufficiently protective is the question going into the group’s Sept. 24-25 meeting.
Ryan Nelson 11 Jun 2019
While FDA does not identify specific product types on the agenda for its public workshop on approaches in skin toxicity testing for topical drug products, advocacy and trade groups anticipate sunscreen ingredient testing could be among the discussion topics. Product expansions have been stifled by regulatory concerns, drawing particular attention from the public health community.
Ryan Nelson 22 Aug 2018
EU sources update Rose Sheet on contentious initiatives to cement the Commission’s pathway for banning carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substances in cosmetics and to promote fragrance allergen awareness and risk management.
Ryan Nelson 22 Aug 2018
Companies have had two years to prepare for new warning requirements under California’s Prop 65, which go live at the end of August. Attorneys say new warning responsibilities in e-commerce settings are among changes most likely to imperil businesses (and enable bounty hunters).
Ryan Nelson 22 Aug 2018
The agency’s survey of eye-area cosmetics marketed as free of traditional preservatives doesn’t raise any obvious red flags. However, it does point to a possible contamination source and suggests “the limits of preservative activity in cosmetics.”
Ryan Nelson 17 Aug 2018
Avisco, a biotech startup focused on the antimicrobial properties of the Inula viscosa plant, and IMD Natural Solutions, whose INS Glycolipid mushroom extract purportedly is “up to 80 times more effective than traditional preservatives,” are among winners named Aug. 6 by GC3.
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