Publications

This is a repository of relevant IFRA Information Letters from previous years, in which you can find details on developments relevant to IFRA’s work.

IFRA issues a series of guidance documents to support its members in their work – helping them to ensure the continued safe use and enjoyment of fragrance materials in a way that respects health and the environment.A selection of public guidance documents is on the link below.

Advancing fragrance Standards, sustainability, and global engagement.

Fragrance is an essential part of our daily lives and our well-being, health, and hygiene. It is a key element of everyday products such as personal care products and cosmetics, hand sanitisers, surface cleaners and anti-bacterial detergents, as well as fine fragrances (perfumes). The fragrance industry is a positive force for environmental, social and economic sustainability. The foundations of the sector’s approach on fragrance safety and sustainability are the IFRA Standards and the IFRA-IOFI Sustainability Charter. For nearly 50 years, the fragrance industry has advanced the safe use of its ingredients, notably via the establishment of an industry-wide Code of Practice and the IFRA Standards3, which are based on a continuously refined risk assessment approach for fragrance ingredients carried out by the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM). The IFRA-IOFI Sustainability Charter takes a lifecycle approach to its products across the value chains. Furthermore, the European Union already has one of the most comprehensive and protective regulatory systems and we are committed to supporting the EU in building on this solid, existing science-based framework​.In December 2019, the European Commission presented its Communication on the European Green Deal,4 an umbrella communication covering several sector-specific deliverables including the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS). IFRA supports the aims of the Green Deal to transform the EU’s economy for a sustainable future. We also support the EU’s efforts to ensure health and environmental protection while at the same time improving the competitiveness of European industry, promoting recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, fostering the EU’s open strategic autonomy and making the transition to a bio-based economy.

This study has been commissioned by the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) to assess the business impacts to the European (EU) fragrance industry of selected actions from the EU Commission’s (EC) Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS): Towards a Toxic-Free Environment.

Its mission is to promote the safe use of fragrance ingredients and mixtures for everyone’s enjoyment. The IFRA Code of Practice is the fragrance industry’s commitment to ensuring best practice in our industry. It applies to all IFRA members worldwide. Our Code covers the manufacture and handling of all fragrance ingredients and mixtures and all types of applications, in so far as these are covered by safety assessments conducted by the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) and consequently fall within scope of the IFRA Standards

The IFRA-IOFI Guidance document and its Annexes (see links below) help companies navigate the wide variety of Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) regulations that have arisen worldwide.