EDITOR AT LARGE: WHITHER FDA.(Editorial)

As the cosmetic industry moves inexorably nearer to treatment and therapy in the skin care category, with stronger and more active ingredients, it becomes more and more difficult for its two main trade associations to argue the case for the Office of Colors and Cosmetics to remain ensconced in the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), a warm friendly unit of the Food & Drug Administration that has long shown a disposition to listen to the industry's problems before jumping too soon to suit consumerists. After all, it was pointed out, CFSAN's attention to food colors (the very same that are used in cosmetics) and the experience of its scientists in cosmetic …