The Cosmetic Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2007

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,138, 23 ta’ Ottubru, 2007

L.N. 314 of 2007

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

The Cosmetic Products (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 39 of the Product

Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications has,

on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, made the following

regulations>-

The title of these regulations is the Cosmetic Products Citation.

(Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2007, and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Cosmetic Products Regulations, hereinafter L.N. 424 of 2004.

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(1) These regulations shall enter into force on 23 rd March Commencement and

Scope.

2008, provided that cosmetic products which fail to comply with these

regulations are not sold or disposed of to the final consumer after the

23 rd June, 2008.

(2) These regulations implement the provisions of

Commission Directive 2007#17#EC of 22 nd March, 2007.

For Part 1 of the Third Schedule to the principal regulations, Amends the Third

the following reference numbers 98 to 101 are added as indicated below> Schedule

principal

regulations.

Reference

Substance

Restrictions

Conditions

No

of use and

warnings

which must

Field of

Maximum

Other

be printed

application

authorised

limitations and

on the label

and/or use

concentration

requirements

in the

finished

cosmetic

product

a

b

c

d

e

f

Salicylic acid ( 1 )

“98

a) Rinse-off

a) 3,0 %

Not to be used

Not to be

(CAS No

hair

b) 2,0 %

in preparations

used

69-72-7)

products

for children

for children

b) Other

under three

under

products

years of age,

three years

except for

of

age ( 3 )

shampoos.

For purposes

other than

inhibiting the

development of

micro-

organisms in

the

product. This

purpose has to

be apparent

from the

presentation of

the product.

Inorganic

a) Oxidative

a) 0,67 %

For purposes

sulfites and

hair dye

expressed

other than

bisulfites ( 3 )

products

as free SO 2

inhibiting the

b) Hair

b) 6,7 %

development of

straightening

expressed as

micro-

products

free SO 2

organisms in

c) Self tanning

c) 0,45 %

the

products for the

expressed

product. This

face

as free SO 2

purpose has to

d) Other self

d) 0,40 %

be apparent

tanning

expressed

from the

products

as free SO 2

presentation of

the product.

Triclocarban ( 4 )

Rinse-off

1,5 %

Purity criteria

(CAS No

products

3,3',4,4'-

101-20-2)

Tetrachloroazo

benzene ≤ 1

ppm

3,3',4,4'-

Tetrachloroazo

xybenzene ≤ 1

ppm

For purposes

other than

inhibiting the

development of

micro-

organisms in

the

product. This

purpose has to

be apparent

from the

presentation of

the product.

Zinc

Leave-on hair

0,1 %

For purposes

pyrithione ( 5 )

products

other than

(CAS No

inhibiting the

13463-41-7)

development of

micro-

organisms in

the

product. This

purpose has to

be apparent

from the

presentation of

the product.

(1) As a preservative, see Fifth Schedule, No 3.

(2) Solely for products which might be used for children under three years of age and which remain in

prolonged contact with the skin.

(3) As a preservative, see Fifth Schedule, No 9.

(4) As a preservative, see Fifth Schedule, No 23.

(5) As a preservative, see Fifth Schedule, No 8.”.

The Fifth Schedule to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows>

(a) in column b, the symbol ‘(*)’ is deleted for the reference

numbers 1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,

32, 33, 35, 37, 42 and 47<

(b) in column b, the symbol ‘(*)’ is added for the reference

numbers 5 and 43<

(c)

Reference number 1 is substituted by the following>

Conditions of use

and warnings

Maximum authorised

which must be

Substance

Restrictions

concentration

printed on the

label

b

c

d

e

Rinse-off products,

except

Benzoic acid

oral care products: 2,5 %

(CAS No 65-85-0)

(acid)

and its sodium salt

Oral care products: 1,7 %

(CAS No 532-32-1)

(acid)

Leave-on products: 0,5 %

(acid)

Salts of benzoic acid

other

than that listed under

0,5 % (acid)”

reference number 1

and

esters of benzoic acid

d) Reference number 8 is substituted by the following

Conditions of use

and warnings

Maximum

which must be

Reference No

Substance

authorised

Restrictions

concentration

printed on the

label

a

b

c

d

e

Rinse-off

Zinc pyrithione

products only.

(*)

Hair products: 1,0 %

No use in

(CAS No 13463-

Other products: 0,5 %

products for

“8

41-7)

oral

hygiene.”.

e) Reference number 36 is deleted.

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