The FDA has “a total of about 50 full time equivalents to regulate a very large and growing industry,” said Michael Landa, Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the FDA in a statement made during a Senate hearing on the safety of cosmetics a few weeks ago. Landa went on to state that although the cosmetics industry is moving product in the billions of dollars, FDA has little more than a dozen employees that actually work in the trenches of … READ MORE

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Below are some of our favorite quotes and exchanges from last week’s Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing, “Examining the Current State of Cosmetics.”  If you haven’t read our first blog about it please read that here.  What follows below are some of the more interesting quotes and exchanges from Michael Landa’s testimony portion of the hearing (our thoughts in italics):

 “FDA’s current authority is principally post-market…the pre-market authority is limited to color additives… we have the authority to ban ingredients … READ MORE

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Last week the U. S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, held a hearing entitled, “Examining the Current State of Cosmetics,” the first of its kind in decades, featuring panel testimonies and inquiry related to the overall safety of cosmetics in the USA.  A few assumptions emerged as the hearing got underway:

Cosmetics are under-regulated compared to other products

The FDA has shockingly little resources assigned to cosmetics

The FDA has little authority to regulate, recall, etc…

There … READ MORE

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