The Food and Drug Administration has reopened the public comment period on a 2005 directive allowing certain previously prohibited cattle parts to be used in cosmetics.
Starting next year food processors and cosmetic manufacturers will
be required to keep records to show that their products are not
manufactured using prohibited animal parts.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes host of
amendments to the July 2004 interim final rule on the use of
materials derived from cattle that clears the way for the use of
certain cattle-derived material in cosmetics.
Following the recent BSE scare in America, the Bureau of Health in
Taiwan has banned a list of cosmetics thought to contain prohibited
US cattle and sheep-sourced ingredients. It is believed the embargo
of American imports will encourage...