Overheard: The Best (and Worst) From Congressional Hearing on Cosmetic Safety
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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