CIR Review Summary May 6, 2026 3 min read

Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients: CIR Safety Assessment Summary

CIR safety assessment summary for Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients: ingredients reviewed, panel verdict, use concentration context,.

Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients appears in a CIR safety assessment covering Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients. The panel verdict for the report is safe. The CIR Expert Panel concluded that the following 25 monosaccharides, disaccharides, and related ingredients are safe in the present practices of use and concentration in cosmetics described in this safety assessment: Calcium gluconate Fructose Fucose Galactose* Galactosyl fructose Galacturonic acid* Gluconic acid Glucose Isomalt Kefiran Lactitol Lactose Lactulose* Maltose Mannose Melibiose Potassium gluconate.

FieldCIR value
Primary ingredientMonosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients
CIR verdictsafe
Report typeSafety Assessment
Date2019
CAS numbers299-28-5, 30237-26-4, 2438-80-4, 59-23-4, 552-12-5, 133-42-6, 526-95-4, 50-99-7, 58367-01-4, 8029-43-4, 64519-82-0, 86753-15-3, 585-86-4, 63-42-3
Use concentration contextpresent practices of use and concentration described in the safety assessment
Conditions or carve-outsNot reported to be in current use

Ingredients Reviewed

The review scope matters because CIR conclusions often apply to an ingredient family rather than a single INCI name. In this report, the ingredient list includes Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients.

Safety Conclusion

The conclusion for Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients should be read as a CIR panel conclusion, not a regulatory limit. CIR assessments summarize expert-panel safety determinations for cosmetic use, while legal status still depends on the jurisdiction and product category.

For use levels, the report gives this concentration context: present practices of use and concentration described in the safety assessment. That language is the safe-use context shown for this page.

Conditions

Not reported to be in current use

Formulation Reading

For formula review, begin with the exact INCI identity and the ingredient group covered by the CIR assessment. If the material is Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients, the relevant comparison is whether the intended use aligns with the practices, concentration ranges, and conditions described in the CIR source.

The ingredient hub at Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients should carry the substance-level profile. This page is the report-level summary, keeping the conclusion, ingredient scope, and use-context language attached to the CIR source rather than treating the conclusion as a universal permission.

Why This Page Exists

CIR reviews are long documents, and the practical answer is usually buried in the conclusion and the table of current practices. This summary keeps those CIR facts in one indexable page for Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients, with source details retained at the bottom for audit.

Review Notes

The conservative reading is to keep Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients tied to the exact CIR report listed below. The ingredient family, panel conclusion, date, and any use-condition language belong together. A shorter ingredient-page snippet would lose that context.

This page gives the search-level answer while preserving the source-level caveat: CIR safety language is a panel assessment for cosmetic practices of use, not a universal legal permission across every jurisdiction or product category.


Source

  • CIR report: Safety Assessment of Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, and Related Ingredients as Used in Cosmetics Monice M. Fiume1, Wilma F. Bergfeld2, Donald V. Belsito2, Ronald A. Hill2, Curtis D. Klaassen2, Daniel C. Liebler2,
  • CIR source file: PRS657.pdf
  • Extraction JSON: Source documentation archived.
  • Conclusion page in CIR extraction: 31