IFRA 40th Amendment

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Tony just posted this update:

The 40th Amendment to the IFRA Code of Practice is now out on the

IFRA website - the full amendment (3 Zip files) can be downloaded as

PDF's in the News & Information/Code of Practice & Amendments section

apparently - see the QRA stuff etc (try starting at

<http://www.ifraorg.org./News.asp>http://www.ifraorg.org./News.asp)

Try and avoid looking at the quite shameful level of scholarship in

the Benefits of Fragrances section.

Cropwatch is weighing the matter up. It could be that the incredible

level of complexity required for the QRA approach works against the

interests of small businesses - and reduces perfumery creation to a

mere computer software exercise. Most perfumers have no problem with

the old wash on/leave on system - and see nothing wrong with it. If

this proves to be a universally held view amongst perfumers - and

Cropwatch could decide to test this matter out publicly - then a

boycott of the 40th Amendment may be in order before the perfumery

trade becomes a bunch of technical software drones working to please

the ensure the RIFM toxicologists have guaranteed future employment.

Worse than that this, the implications of the 40th Amendment if the

QRA approach is universally adopted, is the precident that it sets

for other essential oil users - including aromatheraists and natural

perfumers. How are we going to work out safe administration levels of

essential oils?

I think some serious thinking is called for here. I suppose Cropwatch

is encouraged by the fact that the EU Cosmetics Head of Unit is at

least talking to us - and that we've even managed to halt some

regulatory moves, but if the 40th IFRA Amendment gets incorporated

into the EU regulatory process - as seems to be happening with other

IFRA Amendments which are rubber-stamped by SCCP Opinions - then it

could be time for maximum resistance!

On the regulatory front, things are definitely getting more and more stupid....

Tony Burfield

<http://www.cropwatch.org>www.cropwatch.org

Anya McCoy

Anya's Garden of Natural Perfume http://anyasgarden.com

Artisan Natural Perfumers Guild http://artisannaturalperfumers.org

Natural Perfumers Community Group

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