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 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "eu-hicc-atranol-ban",
 "type": "HistoricalEvent",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 12,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "EU-2017-1410"
 ],
 "title": "HICC, atranol and chloroatranol prohibited in EU cosmetics, 2019",
 "date": {
  "value": "2019-08-23",
  "precision": "day",
  "year": 2019,
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "EU-2017-1410",
  "where": "docs/sources/EU-2017-1410-hicc-atranol-prohibited.md:20",
  "quote": "From 23 August 2019 cosmetic products containing one or more of the substances prohibited by this Regulation shall not be placed on the Union market.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "kind": "regulation",
 "what": {
  "value": "From 23 August 2019 cosmetic products containing HICC, atranol or chloroatranol may not be placed on the EU market.",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "EU-2017-1410",
  "where": "docs/sources/EU-2017-1410-hicc-atranol-prohibited.md:20",
  "quote": "From 23 August 2019 cosmetic products containing one or more of the substances prohibited by this Regulation shall not be placed on the Union market.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "label": "documented",
 "place": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no place on record for this event"
 },
 "actors": [],
 "disagreements": [],
 "molecules": [
  "hicc",
  "atranol",
  "chloroatranol"
 ],
 "materials": [
  "oakmoss-absolute"
 ],
 "botanicals": [],
 "origins": [],
 "perfumers": [],
 "fragrances": [],
 "regulations": [
  "eu-2017-1410"
 ],
 "accords": [
  "fougere-teaching-accord",
  "chypre-teaching-accord",
  "muguet-teaching-accord"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/history#mega-timeline"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "From 23 August 2019 EU cosmetic products could no longer be placed on the market with HICC, atranol or chloroatranol in them.",
  "body": [
   "Regulation (EU) 2017/1410 was adopted on 2 August 2017; from 23 August 2021 such products could not be made available at all. Oakmoss, whose natural atranol and chloroatranol were the reason, had to change."
  ]
 }
}