CITRIC ACID

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

  For informationOfficial information with no condition on a finished product: warning to read, irritation of the pure substance.

  For information Classified under the CLPEU regulation that classifies chemicals by their hazards (EC No 1272/2008). Regulation: eye irritation, category 2 (Eye Irrit. 2). This classification describes the pure substance; in a finished product it is far more diluted.

• 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.

Preservative allowed under conditions

This entry covers “CITRIC ACID (AND) SILVER CITRATE”, which shares the CAS number of CITRIC ACID: its conditions apply only to that form or mixture, not to the ingredient as such.

Maximum concentration

0.2% corresponding to 0.0024% of silver

Other conditions

Not to be used in oral producrs and eye products

Entry

Annex V, No 59

Substance

1,2,3-Propanetricarboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-, monohydrate and 1,2,3-Propanetricarboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-silver(1+) salt, monohydrate

Glossary names

CITRIC ACID (AND) SILVER CITRATE

CAS

5949-29-1; 77-92-9; 36701-38-9

EC

460-890-5

Identity

CosIng identifier

32858

CAS (according to CosIng)

5949-29-1, 77-92-9

EC (according to CosIng)

201-069-1

Declared functions

Buffering, Chelating, Fragrance

Wikidata

Q159683

ECHA InfoCard

100.000.973

CosIng cites 2 CAS numbers for this name: it covers several substances.

citric acid

Neither carcinogenic, mutagenic nor toxic for reproduction under the harmonised classification

Hazard classes

Eye irritation, category 2 (Eye Irrit. 2)
Specific target organ toxicity, single exposure, category 3 (STOT SE 3)

Hazard statements

H319 H335

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

• Entry for a mixture with the same CAS number (Annex V)

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.

6,531 recorded products list it, according to Open Beauty Facts contributors. Records are dated: the formula may have changed. See the list (in French).