CI 59040 (D&c green no. 8)

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 harmonised classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment, and it is not on ECHAEuropean Chemicals Agency.'s Candidate List as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.

• Read on the label

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

Prohibited in hair dyes

CosIng links the name CI 59040 to this entry. The cases of prohibition are explained above, in “In plain words”; the official title is given below.

Entry

Annex II, No 1362

Substance

Trisodium 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonate (Solvent Green 7; CI 59040) when used as a substance in hair dye products

CAS

6358-69-6

EC

228-783-6

Colorant allowed under conditions

Maximum concentration

Not to be used in products applied on the mucous membranes

Entry

Annex IV, No 87

Substance

Trisodium 8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulphonate

Glossary names

CI 59040

CAS

6358-69-6

EC

228-783-6

Identity

CosIng identifier

32781

CAS (according to CosIng)

6358-69-6

EC (according to CosIng)

228-783-6

Declared functions

Colorant

Wikidata

Q414789

ECHA InfoCard

100.026.166

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)

• Prohibited in hair dyes (Annex II)
• Colorant allowed under conditions (Annex IV)

Same entries as in the European Union. Their maximum concentrations are compared in the “Comparison between countries” table; other conditions (product types, warnings) may differ.

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.

South Korea

• Allowed colorant: 녹색 204 호 (피라닌콘크, Pyranine Conc)* CI 59040 (Pyranine Conc)

  색소 고시 별표 1 (allowed colorants), entry 1, page 1. Limit: 0.01%.

  Conditions, source text, in Korean

  눈 주위 및 입술에 사용할 수 없음 | ◎ 사용한도 0.01% | 비고: 타르색소

Brazil

• Prohibited: 8-hidroxipireno-1,3,6-trisulfonato de trisódio (CI 59040), quando usado como substância que entra na composição de corantes capilares

  RDC 529/2021, Anexo (prohibited substances), entry 1362, page 47.

  Conditions, source text, in Portuguese

  N° UE: 1362

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