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The main change compared with the corresponding chapter in the 9th edition of this book is that the voluntary microbial controls described there must now be practised and be controlled in law. An outline here has been added of the mandatory legal regulatory requirements in the extended European Union (EU) for microbial control of cosmetics; countries outside the union are also interested in applying them. The USA and Japan have recently added to their laws which include cosmetic safety. There is a need to harmonize standards globally, though this has not yet happened. This would assure a consumer that any cosmetic is within the set microbial limits and will remain so until the product is used up. That is, a marketed cosmetic will have been tested for its microbial status throughout its formulation development, manufacture, storage in the finished package and also under conditions of repeated in-use contamination during the consumer trials for safety and stability. These stages will be considered in order, after a general consideration of microbial growth.
Cosmetics. The word Cosmetics will be used to include toiletries, i.e. have the definition originally found in the EEC Cosmetic Directive (1976) which has been slightly modified in the 6th Amendment to it in 1993 [1].
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Butler, H. (2000). Microbiological control of cosmetics. In: Butler, H. (eds) Poucher’s Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2734-1_21
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