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The bill improves consumer transparency and lets states act faster to restrict harmful ingredients, but it increases compliance costs, may reduce product availability for some items, and risks a costly patchwork of state rules for businesses.
Consumers will get clearer ingredient disclosure because fragrance and flavor ingredients must be listed on-pack or on brand websites, improving shoppers' ability to identify allergens or harmful chemicals.
State governments retain authority to ban or limit harmful ingredients, enabling faster protective action at the state level instead of waiting for federal rulemaking.
Brand owners and manufacturers gain a clearer federal disclosure standard, which can standardize labeling and reduce uncertainty about what must be disclosed.
Some products could be pulled from sale or face legal risk if labels or websites lack required disclosures, reducing availability for consumers and creating business risk for sellers.
Preserving broad state authority may create a patchwork of differing state requirements, complicating interstate sales and raising compliance burdens for businesses selling nationwide.
Small cosmetic makers will face increased compliance costs to update packaging and maintain website ingredient lists and links, raising operating costs for those businesses.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires on-pack or online disclosure of fragrance and flavor ingredients, expands "cosmetic" to include professional-use products, and makes non-disclosure an adulteration violation.
Official title: To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to increase transparency with respect to cosmetic ingredients, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky · Last progress July 16, 2025
Requires cosmetic products to disclose fragrance and flavor ingredient information on labels or on brand websites, expands the legal definition of "cosmetic" to explicitly cover products sold for consumer or professional use, and makes failure to provide required disclosures a basis for deeming a cosmetic adulterated under the FD&C Act. The bill preserves certain State authority while clarifying federal preemption limits and adds new definitions and website-disclosure requirements for ingredient lists.