The EDANA Stewardship Programme for AHPs EDANA Stewardship Programme CODEX Contact sean kerrigan For further information, please check The safety of AHPs is the overriding priority for EDANA member companies and in this respect the EDANA Stewardship Programme goes a step beyond to provide transparency and reassurance for consumers regarding trace levels of impurities that might be present in AHPs. In 2021, the peer review process, which EDANA members rely on to uphold quality and validity, of the Stewardship Programme CODEX was finalised. Three independent evaluators, two working scientists from reputable research institutions and a publicly certified expert for toxicology in consumerarticles, evaluated the technical merit of the scientific work done by the industry experts, ensuring it maintains high standards of quality. Following an in-depth analysis and assessment of the list of chemicalsincluded in the CODEX, the analytical methodology concluded that: “for the selection of relevant potential contaminants in AHPs predom-inantly public perception could be the decisive parameter; from a tox-icological point of view in-depth`s experience has shown, that analyt-ically detected contaminants do not pose a risk for adverse effects tohuman health, i.e., these non-intentionally added substances are definitively toxicologically irrelevant at the concentrations analytically determined”. This is in line with the White Paper developed by the Scientific Review Panel which states that “limits as such should be decoupled from safety aspects, as they are based on regulatory/standard limits and do not include the aspect of actual human exposure. […] Exceeding CODEX limits does not necessarily mean the products are unsafe. Exposure Based Risk Assessment (EBRA) is needed to assess whether the detected concentration of a chemical substance