21 CFR 740.1
§ 740.1 Establishment of warning statements.
United States · 21 CFR — Food and Drugs · Status: effective
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- 21 CFR 740.1, § 740.1 Establishment of warning statements, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/88629
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(a) The label of a cosmetic product shall bear a warning statement whenever necessary or appropriate to prevent a health hazard that may be associated with the product.
(b) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs, either on his own initiative or on behalf of any interested person who has submitted a petition, may publish a proposal to establish or amend, under subpart B of this part, a regulation prescribing a warning for a cosmetic. Any such petition shall include an adequate factual basis to support the petition, shall be in the form set forth in part 10 of this chapter, and will be published for comment if it contains reasonable grounds for the proposed regulation.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.