Reporting adverse reactions to tattoos and permanent makeup

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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

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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

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Last updated:	October 18, 2006
Author:	Sydney Youngerman-Cole, RN, BSN, RNC
Reviewed By:	William M. Green, MD - Emergency Medicine, Alexander H. Murray, MD, FRCPC - Dermatology
Editors:	Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Tracy Landauer