FURFURAL
Official label name (INCI name, EU glossary of cosmetic ingredient names), No 10688
- Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)
FURFURAL: Allowed with restrictions, maximum 0.001% in the ready-for-use preparation (Annex III, entry 312), under Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. Annexes of the Regulation consulted on 21 October 2026.
Who it concerns
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.
Pregnancy and breastfeeding
No official classification covers reproduction, the unborn child's development or breastfeeding for this substance.
Babies and children
The Cosmetics Regulation sets no age-related condition for this ingredient.
Skin, eyes and allergies
Classified under the CLP Regulation: eye irritation, category 2 (Eye Irrit. 2); skin irritation, category 2 (Skin Irrit. 2).
Environment
No official classification as hazardous to the aquatic environment and no assessment as an endocrine disruptor for the environment.
In plain words
What it is used for
Functions declared by manufacturers:
Fragrance.
Solvent: dissolves other substances.
What the rules say
Allowed, with restrictions: Annex III sets a maximum concentration. Ingredient lists do not give quantities, so the concentration cannot be checked on the label.
Hazard and risk
The CLP Regulation classifies this substance as carcinogenic, category 2 (suspected effect, without enough evidence for a higher category).
This classification describes what the substance can cause (a hazard), not what happens when using a product (a risk): the risk depends on the dose, the form and the route of exposure (skin, inhalation, ingestion).
Classified as a category 2 CMR and allowed under the conditions of Annex III, after an SCCS assessment.
The text of the annexes
Allowed with restrictions
- Maximum concentration
- 0.001%
- Entry
- Annex III, No 312
- Substance
- 2-Furaldehyde
- Glossary names
- FURFURAL
- CAS
- 98-01-1
- EC
- 202-627-7
Dates in the act (1)
- Entry into force on 12 June 2019
Excerpts from the English text published in the Official Journal. A date may concern only some substances of the act: the excerpt says so.
Identity
- CosIng identifier
- 33965
- CAS (according to CosIng)
- 98-01-1
- EC (according to CosIng)
- 202-627-7
- Declared functions
- Fragrance, Solvent
- Wikidata
- Q412429
- PubChem
- 7362
- ECHA InfoCard
- 100.002.389
- InChIKey
- HYBBIBNJHNGZAN-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Classified hazard (CLP Regulation)
The harmonised classification is the one set by the European Union for the whole Union. H codes refer to the hazard statements of Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008.
2-furaldehyde
Carcinogenicity, category 2 (Carc. 2)
- Hazard classes
- Carcinogenicity, category 2 (Carc. 2)
Acute toxicity, category 3 (Acute Tox. 3)
Acute toxicity, category 4 (Acute Tox. 4)
Eye irritation, category 2 (Eye Irrit. 2)
Specific target organ toxicity, single exposure, category 3 (STOT SE 3)
Skin irritation, category 2 (Skin Irrit. 2) - Hazard statements
- H351 H331 H301 H312 H319 H335 H315
Elsewhere in the world
Information on other jurisdictions, with no effect on sale in France. What is covered, and what is not yet.
United Kingdom (Great Britain)
- Allowed with restrictions (Annex III)
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.
Glossary: Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175. Page updated on 21 October 2026.