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* The SCC is now making hot button issue information, dubbed Hot Topics, available on its website, www.scconline.org. For its first Hot Topic, Dr. Barbara Wolf from the Estee Lauder Companies and current chair of the SCC's Committee on Scientific Affairs (COSA) offers some insight to REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals). The European Parliament will pass a new European Union chemical regulation in early 2007. Although this is a chemicals regulation, the cosmetics industry has not been exempted and will be impacted. All cosmetic ingredients manufactured and sold within the European Union or those imported in after REACH takes effect, will require a registration number. Finished goods that are imported into the European Union will require...
