EU Regulation follows fragrance industry’s voluntary global ban

22-Feb-2011 - The European Commission has just announced its decision to ban the fragrance materialMusk xylene under the new European Chemicals Legislation REACH, bringing EUregulations in line with the global IFRA Standards. The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) voluntarily banned Musk xylene ...

IFRA To Publish Fragrance Industry Ingredient List

06-Aug-2009 - IFRA will publish a list of fragrance ingredients being used by the industry’s customers in consumer goods by December 31st 2009 on its website and respond to the changing marketplace where consumers are seeking more information about the ingredients in the products they use safely in their ...

Fragrance industry spots non-compliant product

Third cycle of the IFRA Compliance Program identifies a product containing a recently banned fragrance substance

08-Jul-2009 - Of the 50 products randomly tested from around the world as part of the IFRA Compliance Program’s third cycle (May 2008 to April 2009) one finished product has been identified as containing a recently banned fragrance material. IFRA is now in contact with the finished product manufacturer in ...

IFRA Engages new Laboratory for Compliance Program

11-May-2009 - IFRA has appointed a new international testing laboratory, Eurofins Scientific, to carry out the third party independent analysis for the IFRA Compliance Program. Eurofins’ Hamburg facility took over the testing early this year from the Institute Battelle Laboratories who closed their ...

IFRA Press Release: IFRA issues 43rd Amendment to Safety Standards

01-Aug-2008 - The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has announced the 43rd Amendment to the IFRA Code of Practice. This Amendment relates to a total of 60 Standards, 8 of which are new Standards based on QRA, 26 stay identical but change format of how they are presented and another 26 are related to ...

Colombian Fragrance Association joins IFRA

16-Jun-2008 - The International Fragrance Association announced that the Colombian fragrance association, Camara de la Industria de Sabores y Fragrances (a sector of ANDI - The National Association of Industrialists) has become a full member of IFRA. The "National Association of Industrialists", ANDI, is one ...

Results on fragrance analysis show 100% compliance with IFRA Standards

15-May-2008 - Fifty fragranced products have been selected at random from a selection of 462 marketed products from ten different countries and analyzed for IFRA banned ingredients. The analysis is part of the second cycle of the IFRA Compliance program begun in May 2007 and completed in April 2008. This ...

International Fragrance Association Standards become the norm in Asia

25-Feb-2008 - Members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have implemented a new Cosmetic Directive which includes adherence to the IFRA Code of Practice for the manufacture and handling of fragrance materials. The Directive, which entered into force on January 1st 2008, must be implemented ...