---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 740.1"
title: "21"
number: "740.1"
heading: "Establishment of warning statements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/740.1"
---

# §740.1. Establishment of warning statements.

- (a) The label of a cosmetic product shall bear a warning statement whenever necessary or appropriate to prevent a health hazard that may be associated with the product.
- (b) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs, either on his own initiative or on behalf of any interested person who has submitted a petition, may publish a proposal to establish or amend, under [subpart B](/cfr/21/subpartB.md) of this part, a regulation prescribing a warning for a cosmetic. Any such petition shall include an adequate factual basis to support the petition, shall be in the form set forth in [part 10](/cfr/21/part10.md) of this chapter, and will be published for comment if it contains reasonable grounds for the proposed regulation.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 8917, Mar. 3, 1975, as amended at 42 FR 15676, Mar. 22, 1977]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1451-1561; 21 U.S.C. 321, 351, 352, 353, 355, 356b, 360, 360c-360f, 360h-360j, 371, 374, 379e, 381; 42 U.S.C. 216, 241, 262, 263, 264; sec. 122, Pub. L. 105-115, 111 Stat. 2322 (21 U.S.C. 355 note).

### Amendments

[40 FR 8917, Mar. 3, 1975, as amended at 42 FR 15676, Mar. 22, 1977]