Cosmetic Supply Chain Transparency Act of 2025
Introduced on July 16, 2025 by Janice D. Schakowsky
Sponsors (11)
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AI Summary
This proposal, called the Cosmetic Supply Chain Transparency Act of 2025, aims to make cosmetics safer by improving ingredient and safety reporting across the supply chain. It requires suppliers to share detailed information with brand owners within 90 days, including full ingredient lists (even for fragrances), allergen details, and heavy metal testing results, plus certificates of analysis for ingredients and finished products. The federal health department (the Secretary) must create and keep up a list of contaminants that can show up in cosmetics, set up with public input and expert advice; the list must be updated at least once a year, and anyone can petition to add new chemicals or lists. Once a contaminant is listed, suppliers have one year to test for it and must give brand owners a certificate showing levels found, the tests used, detection limits, and heavy metal results.
If a cosmetic may be unsafe or mislabeled, the Secretary can require the brand owner and others in the supply chain to share records that show who made it, what went into it, and where it was sold; companies must keep these records and provide them on request. Violations can lead to civil fines of up to $10,000 per day. States can still ban or limit ingredients and keep stronger transparency rules; these federal changes do not wipe out state laws except where specifically stated.
- Who is affected: cosmetic brand owners, suppliers, fragrance/flavor companies, and formulating labs; state regulators can continue stronger rules.
- What changes: suppliers must share ingredient and safety data within 90 days; a national list of contaminants is created and updated; listed contaminants must be tested for and disclosed; companies must keep and share supply chain records; fines apply for violations.
- When: advisory group within 9 months; initial contaminant list finalized within 18 months; petition process set within 24 months; list updated at least yearly; suppliers test within 1 year after a contaminant is listed.