{"id":59141,"date":"2015-07-15T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a79224a1442c874ff1b6b35a43b7ea77"},"modified":"2015-07-15T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T06:36:21","slug":"news-story-safety-in-use-of-methylisothiazolinone-in-cosmetic-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59141","title":{"rendered":"News story: Safety-in-use of methylisothiazolinone in cosmetic products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The European Commission\u2019s SCCS has published <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/health\/scientific_committees\/consumer_safety\/docs\/sccs_o_178.pdf\">its opinion on the safety in use of MI in cosmetic products<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>MI (CAS 2682-20-4) is a powerful biocide and preservative which has been used in cosmetics and personal care products. SCCS has looked at the safety-in-use of MI previously, but now has a significantly higher volume of toxicological data to produce a more definitive opinion. <\/p>\n<p>MI was listed in Annex V\/57 of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2009.342.01.0059.01.ENG\">Regulation (EC) No 1223\/2009<\/a> to be used as preservative at maximum concentration of 0.01 % (100 ppm) in cosmetics products. <\/p>\n<p>These new data have led the Committee to conclude that it can no longer be considered safe at concentrations up to 100 ppm in cosmetic rinse-off products, but a maximum concentration of 15 ppm is considered safe in these products. The Committee also concluded that these data do not support the safe use of MI as a preservative in leave-on hair cosmetic products up to a concentration limit of 100 ppm.<\/p>\n<p>The Regulations may be amended in the future, and laboratories will need to be able to measure MI at lower levels than is now necessary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methylisothiazolinone can no longer be considered safe at current levels according to a European Commission consumer safety committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}