Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Cosmetics) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1)1

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 82

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated 15 May 2008

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

CHRIS BOWEN

Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Cosmetics) Amendment Regulations 2008 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Amendment of Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Cosmetics) Regulations 1991

  Schedule 1 amends the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Information Standards) (Cosmetics) Regulations 1991.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 3, before the definition of container

insert

aroma has the same meaning as in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, Twelfth Edition 2008.

Note   The International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, Twelfth Edition 2008 defines aroma as follows:

 ‘Aroma is a term for ingredient labeling used to identify that a product contains a material or combination of materials normally added to a cosmetic to produce or to mask a particular flavor.  The term Aroma shall be used in the European Union (EU) for ingredient labeling instead of listing the individual components of a flavor under the 6th Amendment to the EC Cosmetics Directive.  The INCI name permitted for labeling in the U.S. that corresponds to this EU labeling name is Flavor.  See “Regulatory and Ingredient Use Information,” regarding use of the INCI Names, Flavor and Aroma in Volume 1, Introduction, Part A.’.

[2] Regulation 3, definition of flavour

substitute

flavour has the same meaning as the definition of flavor in the International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, Twelfth Edition 2008.

Note   The International Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary and Handbook, Twelfth Edition 2008 defines flavor as follows:

 ‘Flavor is a term for ingredient labeling used to identify that a product contains a material or combination of materials normally added to a cosmetic to produce or to mask a particular flavor.  The term Flavor may be used instead of listing the individual components of the flavor in accordance with U.S. 21 CFR 701.3(a). The labeling name in the EU will be Aroma under the 6th Amendment to the EC Cosmetics Directive.  See “Regulatory and Ingredient Use Information,” regarding use of the INCI Names, Flavor and Aroma in Volume 1, Introduction, Part A.’.

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