What's inside? : Survey of toxic ingredients in our cosmetics

The table on page 14 shows the reported prevalence of dirty dozen ingredients in the products entered in the survey. [...] The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (cePA) provides in cosmetics have never Health canada and environment canada additional authority to regulate chemical ingredients that been tested for their effects meet the legal definition of “toxic.”h on human health and the environment, and many The ingredient labelling requirement is set forth in the Cosmetic Regulations. [...] The notification provisions of the Cosmetic Regulations should be strengthened to require manufacturers to analyze the complete chemical composition of cosmetics and submit results to Health canada for approval prior to marketing any product for sale in canada. [...] This would identify the presence and concentrations of impurities and by-products that may be harmful to human health or the environment, in addition to the information currently gathered P a g e. 2 6 about “intentional” ingredients.