Day: March 27, 2014

What’s in *your* cosmetics?

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

Ever wondered what’s in your cosmetics and if your cosmetics are safe? Now the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) can help. CDPH has created the California Safe Cosmetics Program Product Database to help answer these questions.

 

The California Safe Cosmetics Program Product Database is a new, searchable cosmetics safety database. It was created for both professionals who work with cosmetics and the consumers who use them. It can be searched for specific products, companies, or chemical ingredients. You can also learn here about how chemical exposure can affect health.

The database was created in response to California’s first-of-its-kind cosmetics law (PDF). This law requires cosmetic companies to report products containing ingredients known or suspected to cause cancer or reproductive harm. The California Safe Cosmetics Program is a part of the Occupational Health Branch of the CDPH.

What’s in *your* cosmetics?

Posted on by UC Berkeley Library

Ever wondered if your cosmetics are safe? Now the CDPH can help. CDPH has created the California Safe Cosmetics Program Public Database to help answer these questions.

The California Safe Cosmetics Program Public Database is a new, searchable cosmetics safety database. It was created for both professionals who work with cosmetics and the consumers who use them. It can be searched for specific products, companies, or chemical ingredients. Users can also learn here about how chemical exposure can affect health.

The database was created in response to California’s first-of-its-kind cosmetics law. This law requires cosmetic companies to report products containing ingredients known or suspected to cause cancer or reproductive harm.

The California Safe Cosmetics Program is a part of the Occupational Health Branch of the CDPH.

TAIR access for UCB researchers

Posted on by Elliott Smith

TAIR

Access to The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) after it becomes a subscription resource on April 1, 2014, will be paid on behalf of all UC Berkeley researchers by the Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natural Resources Library.

As its name implies, TAIR maintains a regularly updated database on Arabidopsis thaliana, a model organism for plant evolution, development and genetics. Data available from TAIR includes the complete genome sequence of A. thaliana, along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, and publications. TAIR also includes data analysis tools, as well as information for and about the Arabidopsis research community.

Fourteenth CTP Distinguished Visiting Lecturer

Posted on by Lee Anne Titangos

“Finding, Moving, and Reading Papyri: The Lives and Work of B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt”

April 2nd
Morrison Library (inside the Doe Library), UC Berkeley
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Reception to follow

Led by Dr. Nikolaos Gonis, Department of Greek and Latin, University College London

Join us as Dr. Gonis discusses Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, the Oxford papyrologists who excavated the Tebtunis papyri. For further info, please contact soknebtunis@berkeley.edu, 510-664-4245.