The European Union has announced a ban on 15 chemicals in cosmetic products, which are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic for reproduction (CMR), which may raise cancer risk, alter DNA, or affect fertility and fetal development. The US does not have a similar mechanism to automatically ban these chemicals. Most of these substances are industrial chemicals used in factories, labs, agriculture, and manufacturing, which the EU is preventing from ever entering cosmetics. However, in the US, these same 15 chemicals remain legal in personal care products.