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 ===== Cosmetics and Personal Care Products =====
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 Algae and algal extracts are among the most widely used plant- and marine-derived ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, serving as active ingredients, humectants, thickeners, colourants and film-formers. The EU cosmetics regulatory framework is entirely separate from food and feed law — managed by different competent authorities, with its own safety assessment and notification system — and applies in full to any product making contact with the external surfaces of the human body with the principal purpose of cleaning, perfuming, changing appearance, protecting, or correcting body odours.
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 ==== The Cosmetics Regulation ====
-Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products, OJ L 342, 22.12.2009, p. 59. [[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02009R1223-20260501|EUR-Lex]]
+Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on cosmetic products, OJ L 342, 22.12.2009, p. 59. [[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02009R1223-20260518|EURlex]]
 This is the single, directly applicable EU Regulation governing cosmetics. Unlike food law, which relies on a mix of framework regulations and sectoral directives, cosmetics are governed by one consolidated Regulation applicable identically across all member states. It covers the full lifecycle of a cosmetic product from pre-market safety assessment through to labelling, post-market surveillance and notification.