Erratum: Contact allergy to the 26 specific fragrance ingredients to be declared on cosmetic products in accordance with the EU cosmetics directive (Contact Dermatitis (2011) 65 (266-275))

摘要

In , the prevalence of allergic contact dermatitis caused by some of the fragrance ingredients has been underestimated by the authors, owing to a technical error in their database.Thus, a positive patch test reaction to at least one of the 2 6 fragrance ingredients was observed in 9.1% (137/1508), and not 7.6% as stated in the article. Including fragrance mix I, fragrance mix II, and Myroxylonpereirae, the prevalence of allergy was 13.6% (205/1508). The fragrance ingredients that were underestimated were: Evernia furfuracea 4.1% (62/1503), Everniaprunastri 2.5% (37/1503), hydroxyisohexyl 3-cyclohexene carboxaldehyde 2.3% (34/1502), isoeugenol 1.1% (16/1502), hydroxycitronellal 0.9% (13/1498), farnesol 0.4% (6/1502), and citral 0.3% (5/1502). Thus, testing with the 26 fragrance ingredients additionally identified 32 subjects with a fragrance allergy who would otherwise have gone undetected. The majority (77.4%) of positive reactions to the 26 fragrance ingredients were of clinical relevance. The prevalence of clinical relevance (present and/or past) to each of the fragrance ingredients did not significantly differ from that described in the article.