Dear Luv Wadhwani,
Cosmetovigilance is a French pharmacovigilance system for cosmetics
developed by the French health products safety agency. Its a proposal
for the future.
Since 1999, the French health products safety agency (Afssaps) has
been responsible for the safety of cosmetic products. Attempts are
underway to set up a French post-marketing surveillance system for
cosmetics and a working group specially in charge of setting this up
has been created.
The "cosmetovigilance" system has the three following objectives:
public health concerns about "at risk" ingredients in cosmetic
products: animal derivatives, glycol ethers, aluminium, camphor, etc;
notification of adverse reactions: creation of standard reporting
forms of adverse reactions; follow-up of laboratory quality controls:
emergency and routine controls.
The "cosmetovigilance" system is not only restricted to the study of
adverse reactions occurring with cosmetic products. It will also
address public health issues about ingredients and will rely on
laboratory controls. The aim of the "cosmetovigilance" system is to
investigate but also to prevent the risk of adverse reactions.
Thanks and Best regards,
M.Saravanan
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