http://safecosmetics.org/ The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a nonprofit coalition effort dedicated to getting chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems out of personal care products. With grassroots support, we're moving the cosmetics industry toward safer products and better oversight. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5500/getLocal.jsp <div class="text blurb">Don't know who your elected officials are? Look them up here (U.S. only).</div> http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5500/getLocal.jsp http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=402 <div class="text blurb">More than a year after promising to conduct an analysis of lead in lipstick, the FDA has released no information to the public.</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=402 http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=347 <div class="text blurb">The Canadian government recently created a Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist that includes hundreds of prohibited and restricted chemicals and contaminants</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=347 http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=346 <div class="text blurb">The European Union has more stringent and protective laws for cosmetics than the United States.</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=346 http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=345 <div class="text blurb">In the absence of federal oversight, states have taken steps to ensure that consumers have access to safer cosmetics and more information about the products they buy.</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=345 http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=344 <div class="text blurb">In order for real oversight of cosmetics by the FDA, Congress must change existing federal law.</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=344 http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=316 <div class="text blurb">The FDA does not review – nor does it have the authority to regulate – what goes into cosmetics before they are marketed to salons and consumers.</div> http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=316