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Executive Editor - Health, Beauty and Wellness Insight
USA
+16 year(s) experience
HBW Insight
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Rose Sheet
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.
Topic FDA
Rose Sheet
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.
Topic Policy and regulation
Rose Sheet
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).
Topic Business strategies
Rose Sheet
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.”
Topic FDA
Rose Sheet
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.
Topic BioPharmaceutical
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