Auckland Allergy Clinic ? WHAT?S NEW February 2006

Welcome to the Auckland Allergy Clinic web site. This section will bring you the latest breaking news in Allergy & Clinical Immunology and also additions we have made to the Clinic in the last month.

The Allergy News information provided on this web site is reviewed and approved by the Allergists at the Auckland Allergy Clinic. The information is sourced from International Medical Journals and Newspapers. These articles are chosen either because they are thought to be particularly good studies, very interesting Allergy News or relevant to New Zealand. The articles may not necessarily be the views of the editor. Where relevant the editor will add his/her comments at the bottom of the review.

These updates are provided for educational, communication and information purposes only.

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February 2006
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Update on Cosmetics Allergy

Vincent St Aubyn Crump ? May 2007

In New Zealand the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) in accordance with the requirement of the Hazardous Substance and new Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996 issued a group standard for cosmetics. This group standard came into force on July 1, 2006. On this date ERMA NZ issued group standards for 30 different categories of hazardous substances. When a substance is assigned to a group standard, it is deemed an approval substance under HSNO.

Group Standards
A group standard is an approval for a group of hazardous substances of a similar type or nature, or that are used in a similar way.

Hazardous substances include products that are:

Flammable

Oxidizing

Toxic to the body or environment

Corrosive

Sensitising to the skin or respiratory tract

Mutagenic or carcinogenic.