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Cosmetics FAQs
What do these
abbreviations/definitions mean?
| ICNA
Act |
Industrial
Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989
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| NICNAS
Cosmetics Guidelines |
Provides guidance
in plain English on the requirements under the ICNA Act and
Cosmetics Standard.
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| ARTG |
Australian
Register of Therapeutic Goods, maintained by the TGA
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| TGA:
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Therapeutic Goods
Administration, responsible for the regulation of medicines and
medical devices in Australia
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| NCCTG |
National
Co-ordinating Committee on Therapeutic Goods that published the,
now superseded, Cosmetics Claims Guidelines
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| GMP |
Good
Manufacturing Practice
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| AICS |
Australian
Inventory of Chemical Substances, a list of existing industrial
chemicals (including cosmetic ingredients) available for use in
Australia, maintained by NICNAS
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| SPF |
Sun protection
factor, the protection factor indicated on a sunscreen product
container; an indication of the efficacy of a product in
blocking UV radiation from the sun
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| UV |
Ultraviolet rays,
a form of solar radiation
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“Interface products” |
Products that
have characteristics of both cosmetics and
therapeutics (medicines).
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