“To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase transparency with respect to cosmetic ingredients, and for other purposes.”
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This section amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act's cosmetics provisions (21 U.S.C. 361 et seq.) as follows: (1) expands the definition of "cosmetic" in section 201(i) to include articles intended for consumer sale or professional use (as defined in new section 617); (2) inserts a subchapter heading "A—Adulterated and Misbranded Cosmetics" before section 601 and adds new misbranding grounds in section 602(g)-(i) for failures to disclose fragrance and flavor ingredients on packaging, labeling, or brand owner websites (including links to specified ingredient hazard lists); (3) revises section 614(b) limitations on federal preemption to preserve state and local authority to impose stricter ingredient use limits, reporting, or disclosure requirements (including those predating the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 or Cosmetic Hazardous Ingredient Right to Know Act of 2025); and (4) adds new sections 615 and 616 requiring brand owners, beginning one year after enactment, to post full ingredient lists (including fragrances and flavors in descending order of predominance, functional purposes, and links to hazard lists) in electronically readable format on their websites (with updates within seven months of list changes) and, beginning two years after enactment, to include such lists on product packaging or labeling plus a health impacts statement with website URL for cosmetics containing specified hazardous chemicals (e.g., EPA IRIS neurotoxics or carcinogens, CDC biomonitoring chemicals, CWA toxic pollutants).