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Heavy Metal Index

Fragrances Categorized According to Their Relative Human Skin Sensitization Potency

The file name aschenbeck2017 does not match the text.

The file name aschenbeck2017 does not match the text. The paper is Api, Parakhia, O’Brien, and Basketter, Dermatitis 2017, on human skin sensitization potency of fragrances. No metal concentrations are reported. numbers is empty. The NOEL and LOEL table for fragrance chemicals was withheld because those values are not metals.

Key numbers

This source does not report a metal concentration or a metal limit.

Methods (brief)

Eighty-nine fragrance chemicals were placed in potency categories: none in category 1, 11 in category 2, 22 in category 3, 37 in category 4, and 19 in category 5. Category 5 is described as not passing the threshold for regulatory classification. Affiliations include the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Woodcliff Lake, NJ.

Detection and reporting: not applicable

Basis: human skin sensitization potency category

Evidence fitness

This source can support: human potency categories for fragrance chemicals.

It cannot support: metal concentrations in cosmetics or fragrances; metal sensitization rates.

Limitations

No metal occurrence, absorption, or metal limits. Fragrance NOEL and LOEL values in Table 2 are printed with a unit that reads Kg/cm2 and were not extracted.

  • No product or metal page is declared for this source. The batch report records the gap.

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