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13.05.2025 - Cosmetics

Recalls in the Safety Gate Portal Cosmetics - April 2025

The EU's rapid alert system Safety Gate provides information on potentially harmful cosmetics that do not comply with Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009.

In the month of April, a total of 296 products were classified as “serious risk”.

Reasons for this included, among others:

Prohibited fragrance ingredient Butylphenyl Methylproprional (Lilial / BMHCA)
Undeclared allergenic fragrance ingredients (Benzyl Alcohol, Linalool)
Detection of prohibited substances (Hydroquinone, Mercury, Formaldehyde)
Insufficient microbiological quality according to ISO 17516

In Safety Gate, you can filter by type of product, date of publication, and type of recall (microbiological/chemical).

Have your products and raw materials regularly tested for microbiological and chemical residues. The experts at BAV Institute will assist you in selecting test parameters.

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