2019 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 418 - Uniform Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
Section 21a-111 - (Formerly Sec. 19-230). Adulterated cosmetics.

A cosmetic shall be deemed to be adulterated: (a) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to users under the conditions of use prescribed in the labeling thereof, or under such conditions of use as are customary or usual; provided this provision shall not apply to coal-tar hair dye, the label of which bears the following legend conspicuously displayed thereon: “Caution–This product contains ingredients which may cause skin irritation on certain individuals and a preliminary test according to accompanying directions should first be made. This product must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows; to do so may cause blindness”, and the labeling of which bears adequate directions for such preliminary testing, and provided, for the purposes of this subsection and subsection (e), the term “hair-dye” shall not include eyelash dyes or eyebrow dyes; (b) if it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance; (c) if it has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health; (d) if its container is composed, in whole or in part, of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health; or (e) if it is not a hair-dye and it bears or contains a color additive which is unsafe within the meaning of section 21a-104.

(1949 Rev., S. 3947; 1963, P.A. 359, S. 8.)

History: 1963 act deleted provision in Subsec. (e) re regulations promulgated under section 364 of the federal act, substituting reference to Sec. 19-224; Sec. 19-230 transferred to Sec. 21a-111 in 1983.