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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-safety-amendment-no2-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2121",
  "legislation_title": "The Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment No.2) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cosmetic-products-safety-amendment-no2-regulations-1988",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations 1984 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Commission Directive No. 88/233/EEC (O.J. No. L105, 26.4.88, p. 11) on cosmetic products.\nThe main changes are—\n(1) The prohibition of five substances and five colouring agents from use in cosmetic products by the addition of their names to Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations. The substances in question are 3,4',5-tribromosalicylanilide (Tribromsalan),Phytolacca Spp and their preparations, Tretinoin or retinoic acid and its salts, 1-Methoxy-2,4-diaminobenzene, also known as 2,4-diaminoanisole, and 1-Methoxy-2,5-diaminobenzene, also known as 2,5-diaminoanisole. The five colouring agents are CI 12140, 26105, 42555, 42555-1 and 42555-2. The reference to substance 1-Methoxy-2,4-diaminobenzene has the Colour Index Number 76050 allocated to it.\n(2) The clarification of the uses to which Thioglycollic acid is permitted to be put by distinguishing between the acid and its salts and the acid esters application and by further qualifying the purity criteria and amplifying the information and labelling requirements.\n(3) The expansion of the existing controls over the use of Quinolin-8-ol and bis(8-hydroxyquinolinium) sulphate so as to permit use in non-rinse-off hair-care products but at a reduced concentration level.\n(4) The introduction of controls relating to the use of Etidronic acid and its salts in cosmetic products.\n(5) The placing on a permanent basis the previously provisional controls on the use of 1-Phenoxypropan-2-ol in cosmetic products.\n(6) The amendment of the list of provisionally allowed substances at Schedule 2, Part II by extending the dates set for permission to use the substances 1,1,1-Trichloroethane (methyl chloroform) and 2,2'-Dithiobis (pyridene-1-oxide) and by deleting references to 3,4'5-Tribromosalicylanilide (Tribromosalan) and 1-Phenoxypropan-2-ol.\n(7) The addition to the list of fully approved colouring agents at Schedule 3, Part I of the agent Acid Red 195 and the deletion of the reference to the colouring agent 13065.\n(8) The amendment of the list of provisionally approved colouring agents at Schedule 3, Part II by extending the authorisation dates of agents 13065, 21110, 42535, 44045, 61554 and 73900, and removing from the list colouring agents 12700, 44025, 73312 and Acid Red 195.\n(9) The addition to the list of fully allowed preservatives at Schedule 5, Part I of the substances 2-Chloroacetamide, Chlorhexidine (INN) and its digluconate, diacetate and dihydrochloride and 1-Phenoxypropan-2-ol at the conditions and levels previously allowed for provisionally approved use.\n(10) The amendment of the list of provisionally allowed preservatives at Schedule5, Part II by extending the authorisation dates for Chlorphenesin (INN), Benzalkonium chloride (INN), bromide and saccharinate; 1-(1,3-Bis(hydroxymethyl)2,5-dioxoimidazolidin-4-yl)-1,3-bis(hydroxymethyl) urea and Benzylhemiformal (until now shown as Benzylformal), amending the concentration level permitted for the use of Chlorphensin and deleting references to 5-Bromo-5-nitro-1,3-dioxane, Undec-10-enoic acid and its associated forms, 2-Chloro-N-(hydroxymethyl) acetamide, 1-Phenoxypropan-2-ol, Hextidine (INN), 2-Chloroacetamide and Chlorhexidine (INN) and its digluconate, diacetate and dihydrochloride.\nThe Colour Index referred to in these Regulations may be obtained from the Society of Dyers and Colourists, PO Box No. 244, 82 Grattan Road, Bradford BD1 2JB.",
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