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ICADA

The Cosmetics Association represents small and medium-sized cosmetics companies in EU and national legislative procedures; ICADA answers technical and legal questions for its members, assists with problems with the authorities and provides sales support. ICADA informs the entire industry to a unique extent. 

ICADA supports its members in dealing with the authorities or customs, provides practical advice on competent, reasonably priced safety assessors, contract manufacturers, small-volume raw material and packaging suppliers and consultants for cosmetic products. ICADA's members can expect help with the creation of requirement plans and framework agreements in contract manufacturing and many other support services.

Our members

ICADA provides information, problem-solving and representation of interests for the various sectors of the cosmetics industry. For this reason, our membership is made up of members from all areas of this industry. 
This includes institutional, natural, dermo and nail cosmetics. However, we also focus on the special problems of contract manufacturing or raw material suppliers. Unlike other associations, service providers such as safety assessors or testing laboratories can also become members of ICADA, provided they have a connection to cosmetics.

ICADA activities

From ICADA's work in the area of services for members:

From ICADA's work in the area of services for members:

  1. Impact statements
  2. Label - Certificates
  3. Allergens
  4. Raw material suppliers
  5. Safety assessors
  6. Contract manufacturers
  7. Bans on tea tree oil and neem
  8. New manual for labeling and warnings of fragrances | Adaptation of the appropriate declaration of plant extracts
  9. Certification according to ISO 22716
  10. GMP
  11. etc.

From ICADA's work in the working groups of the European Commission:

  1. New Cosmetics Regulation with fundamental changes
  2. Obligations and scope of digital labeling
  3. Prostaglandins on the meeting agenda without notice; ICADA intervention successful
  4. Omnibus V adopted in September, bans in force 17.12.22
  5. Omnibus VI: Neem + theophylline defended by ICADA against bans
  6. Statement from ICADA to the EU Commission - SMEs need more time for sales with omnibus implementation
  7. 108 Allergen declaration
  8. Status of bans and restrictions on endocrine disruptors
  9. nano substances not under evaluation are now to be banned directly
  10. SCCS: no opinion with safety statement possible for 4-MBC
  11. Defense of hexyl salicylates
  12. Timetable for KVO revision
  13. New nano-definition
  14. Possible SCCS fate
  15. CPNP window for consumers
  16. CPNP numbers on packaging
  17. Completion of REACH revision
  18. New component of the safety assessment: the "mixture assessment factor 2/10/100"
  19. Delays in CBD use authorization
  20. Warning against improper UV-A protection
  21. Defense tea tree oil
  22. Appropriate INCI position of carbon dioxide extracts

ICADA information for the industry:

  1. additional allergen declaration list | list of newly banned substances
  2. The new EU-CBD discussion paper
  3. New Italian packaging regulation
  4. Offer of interest representation to avoid the ban on TPO (trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide)
  5. TTO advocacy by ICADA | Inquiry of application profiles, market importance, defense interest
  6. CSR goals of the cosmetics industry
  7. Whistleblower Protection Act (HinSchG) | Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)
  8. 1 substance = 1 assessment | fear of blanket animal testing for CSS objectives
  9. Manual for labeling and warnings for fragrances/fragrances + flavourings/flavourings
  10. New NiSV | existing regulations can be optimized

ICADA - Industrial service

  1. label
  2. Start-up service
  3. Conferences
  4. Seminars
  5. ICADA-Expo
  6. Free Sales Ceriticates
  7. GMP Certificates