Notes on doing the research.
Industry-neutral writing about the work itself: how to cite a paragraph, when to stop, and what a trail is for. Not product announcements.
CosIng is the European Commission's free database of cosmetic ingredients, INCI names and Annex entries. How to search it and what it can't tell you.
A short checklist for reading a cited regulatory answer under time pressure, whether it came from a colleague, a consultant or a research agent.
Retainers are for judgement. Status checks, scope questions and cross-market deltas should not wait for a kickoff call. How to split the work.
Most of the binding detail in a modern instrument lives in a table. A short method for not missing the row that actually applies.
The most expensive regulatory answers are the ones that fill a gap with a plausible sentence. How to treat silence as a finding.
Cross-market regulatory questions fail when they are answered as eight separate memos. How to ask for the differences that actually change the work.
An answer without a method is a claim. Why the steps behind a regulatory answer belong on the same page as the sentence you will quote.
A regulatory answer you cannot re-find is not an answer. How to pin a claim to the instrument, annex and paragraph someone else can open.