HR4435-119

What This Bill Does

The Cosmetic Hazardous Ingredient Right to Know Act extends cosmetic regulation to products for consumer sale and professional use, then creates web and label disclosure duties. Beginning one year after enactment, brand owners must disclose on their websites, in electronically readable form, a full ingredient list for each cosmetic sold or offered in interstate commerce, including fragrance and flavor ingredients in descending order of predominance; identify ingredients that appear on specified hazard lists; state the functional purpose of each fragrance or flavor ingredient; and link to hazard communication safety data sheets for professional-use cosmetics. Updates to listed hazards must be reflected within seven months. Beginning two years after enactment, packaging or labeling must list ingredients, including fragrance and flavor ingredients, and must add a website statement when a product contains listed chemicals. The hazard lists include EPA neurotoxicity, carcinogen, persistent-bioaccumulative-toxic, CDC exposure, Clean Water Act toxic pollutant, Toxics Release Inventory, California Proposition 65, EU cosmetics, REACH, IARC, NTP, FDA, endocrine-disruptor, and related authoritative lists. The bill also preserves stronger state cosmetic transparency rules.

Who Benefits and How

Cosmetic consumers benefit from ingredient, fragrance, flavor, and hazard-list information in online and label formats. Professional salon workers benefit because professional-use products must link to hazard communication safety data sheets. Consumer health advocates benefit from searchable web disclosure tied to authoritative hazard lists. State regulators benefit because stronger state disclosure and ingredient-protection rules are preserved.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Brand owners must build electronically readable websites, update disclosures within seven months of list changes, and redesign labels within two years. Cosmetic manufacturers must supply ingredient and fragrance information needed for full consumer and professional-use disclosure. Internet vendors must receive and display information from brand owners for products sold online. FDA must treat failures to disclose fragrance or flavor information and missing hazard links as misbranding.

Key Provisions

• Requires website disclosure of full cosmetic ingredients, fragrance ingredients, flavor ingredients, functional purposes, hazard-list links, and professional-use safety data sheets after one year.
• Requires packaging or label ingredient disclosure after two years, including a website statement for products with listed hazardous ingredients.
• Requires brand owners to revise disclosures within seven months after authoritative hazard-list updates.
• Preserves state rules that provide greater cosmetic transparency, disclosure, or ingredient protection.