About the Cosmetic Ingredient Review
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review was established in 1976 by the industry trade association (then the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association, now the Personal Care Products Council), with the support of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Federation of America. Although funded by the Council, CIR and the review process are independent from the Council and the cosmetics industry. CIR operates under a set of procedures.
General policy and direction are given by a 6-member Steering Committee chaired by the the President and CEO of the Council, with a dermatologist representing the American Academy of Dermatology, a toxicologist representing the Society of Toxicology, a consumer representative representing the Consumer Federation of America, an industry scientist (the current chair of the Councils CIR Committee), and the Council’s Executive Vice President for Science.
Panel Voting Members
CHAIR
Head of Clinical Research and
Dermatopathology
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
One Clinic Center
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195-5001
Donald V. Belsito, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Medicine
(Dermatology)
University of Missouri, Kansas City
c/o American Dermatology Associates,
LLC
6333 Long Ave., 3rd floor
Shawnee, KS 66216
Ronald A. Hill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicinal
Chemistry
Department of Basic Pharmaceutical
Sciences
College of Pharmacy
The University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA 71209
Curtis D. Klaassen, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor and
Chair
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology,
and Therapeutics
School of Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Blvd.
Kansas City, KS 66160-7319
Daniel C. Liebler, Ph.D.
Director, Jim Ayers Institute for
Precancer Detection and Diagnosis
Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Biochemistry, Pharmacology
and Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
465 21st Ave. South
Nashville, TN 37232
Professor of Dermatology
Chairman of the Department of
Dermatology
Pennsylvania State University College of
Medicine
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
P.O. Box 850
Hershey, PA 17033-0850
Ronald C. Shank, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Community and
Environmental Medicine
Director, Environmental Toxicology
Program
University of California, Irvine
19172 Jamboree Road
Irvine, CA 92697-1820
Thomas J. Slaga, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
University of Texas Health Science
Center
7703 Floyd Curl Drive MC 7764
San Antonio, TX 78229-3900
Paul W. Snyder, D.V.M., Ph.D.
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Veterinary
Patholobiology
Purdue University
725 Harrison Street
Veterinary Pathology Building
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Panel Liason Members
AMERICA
Rachel Weintraub, Esq.
Consumer Federation of America
1620 I Street, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
CIR INDUSTRY LIAISON
Halyna P. Breslawec Ph.D.
Executive Vice President-Science
Personal Care Products Council
1101 17th Street, NW Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION
Linda Katz, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Office of Cosmetics
and Colors
Chief Medical Officer, CFSAN
Food and Drug Administration
5100 Paint Branch Parkway, HFS-100
College Park, Maryland 20740