Sec. 5. Support for creating safer alternatives
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the Secretary ), acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall award grants to support research focused on the design of cosmetic chemicals that have no inherent toxicity or association with adverse health effects. In awarding grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give priority to applicants proposing to focus on— replacing chemicals in professional cosmetic products used by professional nail, hair, and beauty salon workers with chemicals that are not associated with adverse health events; replacing chemicals in cosmetic products marketed to women and girls of color, including any such beauty, personal hygiene, and intimate care products, with chemicals that are not associated with adverse health events; or providing assistance in creating safer product formulations to minority-owned cosmetic companies that are manufacturing and marketing cosmetic products to women or girls of color or professional nail, hair, and beauty salon workers.
In this section, the term salon worker means a licensed or nonlicensed cosmetologist, nail technician, barber, or esthetician who applies or administers a cosmetic within the scope of their business practices. To carry out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the period of fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year including the date of enactment of this section and running through the fifth fiscal year commencing after such date of enactment.