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Visual Impairment and Olfactory Acuity

Continuing the exploration of the relationship between visual impairment and smelling ability.

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Fragrance Perception: Is Everything Relative?

Recent research presents a leap towards a consensus in fragrance mapping.

Kinds and intensities of odors

If you have engaged in odor testing sessions, you know how exhausted you feel after half an hour of concentrated effort. Working near the threshold level is very difficult indeed. There can be agonies of indecision. I have always told my observers that it is their first snap impression that counts and is usually right. The chemical senses in our bodies are wonderfully designed and will come out with “I can smell it” or “l can’t smell it” instantaneously.

UPDATE: IFRA Transparency List Live

As previously reported, the International Fragrance Association has posted an alphabetized list of member-utilized fragrance ingredients.

IFRA Assumes EFFA Fragrance Activities

Move centralizes fragrance industry advocacy and communication activities and creates the European Flavours Association.

Tom Neltner, co-chair, Sierra Club’s toxics committee.

Ingredient Disclosure and Fragrance Safety

How will industry engagement with NGOs be reflected in the actions of consumer product companies?

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Endpoint. Clarity in Clean Labels

The bottom line on clean labeling comes back to the consumer. Are they caught up in a cloud of details for processing and replacing ingredients? Or do they just want a simple, transparent product label?

More Perfume Materiak from Isoprene

We should all realize that the new Toxic Substances Control Act, which Congress is about to pass, will increase considerably the cost of developing new aroma chemicals. The new law may reduce the number of such chemicals drastically. Closer cooperation between the fragrance and the aroma chemical industries will now be even more important in order to maintain a healthy level of innovation in areas of mutual interest.

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Smell and Taste in Aging

Understanding the ways in which age affects olfactory and gustatory sensitivity differently, and how individual olfactory sensitivies may diminish at varying rates

IFRA Amends Code of Practice

The 48th Amendment to the code of practice includes three new Standards based on the dermal sensitization QRA and more.

Socio-Economic Impacts of REACH

The European Commission said it will take "concrete action" to prevent any disruption to trans-Atlantic trade caused by an oversight in REACH that could be read to exclude US cosmetics from a phase-in period for registration of substances.

Fragrance Fully Compliant, IFRA Rules

Review finds fragrance flagged earlier this year was manufactured pre material ban.

EFSA Announces Major Transparency Initiative

The organization has also opened up its scientific committee and panel meetings to external observers to promote better understanding of how scientific risk assessment is carried out.

IFRA updated its international standards announced the SHIFT2024 plan.

IFRA Releases 2024 Annual Report

The association released a video highlighting achievements from the past year.

IFRA Screen Finds One Noncompliant Product

Product contains recently banned material.

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Patent Pick: Not Seeing is Believing

Shiseido inventors prove in this patent that "not seeing is believing," with a translucent fragrance composition based on silicone oil, α-olefin oligomer, polyether-modified silicone, perfume, lower alcohol and water.

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Update on ISO for Essential Oils

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) develops and updates essential oil standards.

IFRA Standards Booklet Now Available Online

Association has made the document available via its website

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