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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.

EPAA NAM User Forum in Hel­sin­ki, 7 – 9 July 2026

Pro­ject IDEA has, over the years of its exis­ten­ce, con­ti­nuously deli­ve­red impor­tant con­tri­bu­tions to the risk assess­ment and mana­ge­ment of fra­gran­ce skin sensitizers.

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).

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

The recent incor­po­ra­tion of maxi­mum accep­ta­ble con­cen­tra­tions (MAC) for AVO (Acetyly­ted veti­ver Oil) and Citral in the Annex III of the EU Cos­me­tic Regu­la­tion repre­sent impor­tant achie­ve­ments in IFRAs ongoing enga­ge­ment in ingre­dient defense.

Event high­lights latest insights on skin sen­si­ti­sa­tion, fra­gran­ce allergy and risk assessment

Repre­sen­ting IFRA, Dr. Caro­li­ne Li par­ti­ci­pa­ted in a recent mee­ting of the RAIN Asia Wor­king Group, a plat­form brin­ging together lea­ding inter­na­tio­nal che­mi­cal industry asso­cia­tions, inclu­ding the Ame­ri­can che­mistry Coun­cil (ACC), che­mi­cal industry asso­cia­tion of Cana­da, CEFIC, SCIC ( Sin­ga­po­re che­mi­cal industry Coun­cil), among others, to dis­cuss regu­la­tory deve­lop­ments across Asia.The mee­ting focu­sed on recent deve­lop­ments in che­mi­cal regu­la­tions and the asso­cia­ted cha­llen­ges facing the industry and glo­bal value chains. Par­ti­cu­lar atten­tion was given to the imple­men­ta­tion of new che­mi­cal regu­la­tions in Asia Paci­fic coun­tries inclu­ding Viet­nam, which industry are acti­vely wor­king with local sta­ke hol­ders regar­ding cla­rity, prac­ti­ca­lity, and imple­men­ta­tion details.

Peru published on April 8 Supre­me Decree No. 005‑2026-MINAM, which appro­ves the Regu­la­tion of Legis­la­ti­ve Decree No. 1570, the Legis­la­ti­ve Decree that enacts the Law on the Com­prehen­si­ve Mana­ge­ment of Che­mi­cal Substances.