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The Inter­na­tio­nal Fra­gran­ce Asso­cia­tion (IFRA) will sha­re the latest on the 52^nd Amend­ment to the IFRA Stan­dards with the South Afri­can fla­vor and fra­gran­ce com­mu­nity at the semi­nar of the South Afri­can Asso­cia­tion of the Fla­vour & Fra­gran­ce Industry (SAAF­FI) on Wed­nes­day, 28 Octo­ber 2026.

IFRA joi­ned scien­tists, per­fu­mers and industry experts at the Royal Ins­ti­tu­tion in Lon­don for the 15^th IFRA UK Fra­gran­ce Forum, which explo­red our sen­se of smell in an increa­singly digi­tal world. IFRA Pre­si­dent Ale­xan­der Mohr ope­ned the after­noon session.

Ale­xan­der Mohr, Pre­si­dent of IFRA, joi­ned the Next in Fra­gran­ce Con­fe­ren­ce at Beauty­world Dubai for a panel on regu­la­tions, ethics and the pla­net, along­si­de Ajmal Group and the Oud Gra­ding Institute.

IFRA took part in the EFf­CI Annual Con­fe­ren­ce 2026 in Athens, with a pre­sen­ta­tion on regu­la­tion and inno­va­tion and a pla­ce on the con­fe­ren­ce’s ​‘Four Mus­ke­teers’ panel on glo­bal and regio­nal har­mo­ni­za­tion and dia­lo­gue bet­ween policy­ma­kers and industry.

IFRA has laun­ched the IFRA Behind the Scents Pod­cast: In a first epi­so­de, the asso­cia­tio­n’s Regio­nal Direc­tor for Euro­pe explains Euro­pe’s land­mark regu­la­tory pac­ka­ge – and why it mat­ters for safety, inno­va­tion, and the pro­ducts con­su­mers love.

The new regu­la­tion crea­tes a stand-alo­ne legal fra­me­work for ECHA and incor­po­ra­tes the Scien­ti­fic Com­mit­tee on Con­su­mer Safety (SCCS) into the agency

The Euro­pean Com­mis­sion has con­fir­med it will not pur­sue a full legis­la­ti­ve overhaul of REACH (Regis­tra­tion, Eva­lua­tion, Autho­ri­sa­tion and Res­tric­tion of Che­mi­cals), a deci­sion IFRA wel­co­mes as pro­vi­ding much nee­ded cer­tainty for the fra­gran­ce industry.

The Euro­pean Che­mi­cals Agency (ECHA) Risk Assess­ment Com­mit­tee (RAC) adop­ted an Opi­nion at its 77^th Ple­nary mee­ting, held in June 2026, clas­sif­ying l‑Carvone (EC 229−352−5, CAS 6485−40−1) and spear­mint oil (EC -, CAS 8008−79−5) as Toxic for Repro­duc­tion Cate­gory 2 (Repr. 2; H361d).

Ani­mal-free Che­mi­cal Safety Assess­ment and Road­map Imple­men­ta­tion Con­fe­ren­ce 1 – 3 June 2026.

Brus­sels, 17 June 2026 – The cos­me­tics, fra­gran­ce and essen­tial oils indus­tries wel­co­me the pro­vi­sio­nal inter­ins­ti­tu­tio­nal agree­ment reached today on the Omni­bus VI proposal.

The Inter­na­tio­nal Fra­gran­ce Asso­cia­tion (IFRA) wel­co­mes the road­map pre­sen­ted today by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion to pha­se out ani­mal tes­ting for che­mi­cal safety assess­ments – a miles­to­ne for inno­va­tion, ani­mal wel­fa­re, and modern, human-rele­vant safety science.