ACID YELLOW 23 (tartrazine)

What official classifications and rules say for each group. A classification describes the hazard of the pure substance, not the risk of a product that contains it, which depends on the dose and the exposure.

Prohibition or serious classificationThe text prohibits the substance for this use, or ranks it among the most serious hazards (known or presumed carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic, identified endocrine disruptor).Worth watchingThe text sets a condition or flags a hazard worth knowing: allergen, suspected effect, condition for children, hazard to the aquatic environment.For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding

  No classification harmonised by the European Union covers reproduction, the unborn child or breastfeeding for this substance. This does not mean it has been judged to have no effect during pregnancy.

• Babies and children

  The Cosmetics Regulation sets no age-related condition for this ingredient.

• Skin, eyes and allergies

  No official classification for sensitisation, irritation or eye damage, and no obligation to label it as an allergen.

• Environment

  No official classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment and no assessment as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

  The Cosmetics Regulation requires no warning to be printed for this ingredient.

Allowed with restrictions

Product type

Hair dye substance in non-oxidative hair dye products

Maximum concentration

0.5%

Entry

Annex III, No 189

Substance

Trisodium 5-hydroxy-1-(4-sulphophenyl)-4-(4-sulphophenylazo)pyrazole-3-carboxylate and aluminium lake (see note 17). CI 19140

Glossary names

CI 19140 / ACID YELLOW 23

CAS

1934-21-0 - 12225-21-7

EC

217-699-5 - 235-428-9

Colorant allowed under conditions

This entry covers the same substance as ACID YELLOW 23 (same CAS number in the CosIng inventory): its conditions apply.

Purity criteria

Purity criteria as set out in Commission Directive 95/45/EC (E 102)

Entry

Annex IV, No 44

Substance

Trisodium 5-hydroxy-1-(4-sulphophenyl)-4-((4-sulphophenyl)azo)pyrazole-3-carboxylate and its insoluble barium, strontium and zirconium lakes, salts and pigments

Glossary names

CI 19140

CAS

12225-21-7; 1934-21-0

EC

235-428-9; 217-699-5

Identity

CosIng identifier

31637

CAS (according to CosIng)

1934-21-0

EC (according to CosIng)

217-699-5

Declared functions

Hair dyeing

Wikidata

Q407158

ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency. InfoCard

100.016.091

The CAS number cited by CosIng also covers 1 other INCI name: it designates a family of substances, not this ingredient alone.

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)
• Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV)

Same entries as in the European Union. Conditions (concentrations, warnings) may differ: they are not compared here.

Switzerland

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 applies in Switzerland (Article 54 of the Ordinance on Foodstuffs and Utility Articles).

United States, federal rules

None of the integrated sections of the federal code (21 CFR 700.11 to 700.27 and 250.250) targets this name. The FDA does not publish a list of allowed ingredients.

1 recorded product list it, according to Open Beauty Facts contributors. Records are dated: the formula may have changed. See the list (in French).