Iowa Code 126.14 – Cosmetics — adulteration
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A cosmetic is adulterated if any of the following apply:
1. a. It bears or contains a poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to users under the conditions of use prescribed in its labeling or under customary or usual conditions of use. However, this does not apply to coal-tar hair dye if the label of the dye bears the following legend conspicuously displayed and the label bears adequate directions for the preliminary testing:
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.
b. For the purposes of this subsection and subsection 5, “hair dye” does not include eyelash dyes or eyebrow dyes.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 126.14
- Contaminated with filth: means not securely protected from dust, dirt, and as far as is necessary by all reasonable means, from all foreign or injurious contaminations. See Iowa Code 126.2
- Cosmetic: means any of the following, but does not include soap:a. See Iowa Code 126.2
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of an article; and a requirement made by or under authority of this chapter that any word, statement, or other information appear on the label is not complied with unless the word, statement, or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper of the retail package of the article, or is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper. See Iowa Code 126.2
- Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying an article. See Iowa Code 126.2
2. It consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance.3. 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.4. Its container is composed, in whole or in part, of a poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health.5. It is not a hair dye and it is, or it bears or contains a color additive which is “unsafe” within the meaning of section 706(a) of the federal Act.