Reporting adverse reactions to tattoos and permanent makeup
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) encourages everyone to report adverse reactions to permanent and temporary tattoos and permanent makeup to the Cosmetics Adverse Reaction Monitoring system (CARM). This agency monitors problems caused by cosmetic products and ingredients, including color additives.
You can contact CARM by telephone at (202) 401-9725, or you can send written reports of adverse reactions to:
- Office of Cosmetics and Colors
- HFS-106
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- 5100 Paint Branch Parkway
- College Park, MD 20740-3835
You can also submit information about adverse reactions to MedWatch, the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program:
- By mail:
- MedWatch
- 5600 Fishers Lane
- Rockville, MD 20852-9787
- By phone: 1-800-332-1088
- By fax: 1-800-332-0178
- By Internet: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch
| Author: | Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC | Last Updated: October 18, 2006 |
| Medical Review: | William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine Alexander H. Murray, MD, FRCPC - Dermatology | |
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