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POLYETHYLENE

Not on the EU Annex III list

POLYETHYLENE is listed in the European Commission CosIng inventory under the functional categories Abrasive, Film Forming, Viscosity Controlling, with CAS number 9002-88-4. In the free INCIDB sample it appears on 1 product label, reaching position 10 on Dove men care stick clean comfort 50 m.

CAS REGISTRY NUMBER
9002-88-4
COSING FUNCTIONS
Abrasive, Film Forming, Viscosity Controlling

Sample products containing POLYETHYLENE

Label positions from the free INCIDB sample. A lower position means the ingredient is declared earlier, i.e. present in a higher proportion.

PRODUCT LABEL POSITION
Dove men care stick clean comfort 50 m #10

Query POLYETHYLENE in the full snapshot

import pyarrow.parquet as pq

ingredients = pq.read_table('ingredients.parquet').to_pandas()
target = ingredients[ingredients['inci_name'] == "POLYETHYLENE"]
print(target[['ingredient_id', 'functions', 'cas_number', 'is_common_allergen']])

The complete snapshot covers 18,583 products. Coverage of each enrichment column is published, both per distinct name and weighted by label occurrence — see the coverage table.

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