Q Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it
purport to do, and has it been signed into law?   The proposed
bill aimed to ensure that all personal care products for sale in
the United States would be free of harmful ingredients and that
all ingredients would be fully disclosed. The bill would have
given the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the authority to
prohibit the use of certain ingredients, including carcinogens
and reproductive and developmental toxins, to recall products
that fail to meet safety standards, and to require product
labels to name each ingredient.  The FDA has only limited say in
what cosmetics manufacturers can and cannot put into their
products. And the cosmetics industry has essentially been
regulating itself for some three decades, and would like to keep
it that way. In response to failed efforts in the 1970s to force
the FDA to regulate cosmetics more like drugs -- with required
premarket safety assessments -- the industry decided to take
matters into its own hands, c