# Selenium

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_cas_7782_49_2
Categories: beauty, industrial, pharma
Functions: Degradant/impurity, Flavouring and nutrient, No specific technical function, reduces the amount of bismuth needed to achieve the desired improvement in properties

> Selenium is used as degradant/impurity / flavouring and nutrient. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 100/100 — Critical concern.. Assessed from 7 sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 100/100 — Critical concern.
- Confidence: 4
- Rationale: Selenium and its compounds with the exception of selenium disulphide under the conditions set out under reference No 49 in Annex III is prohibited in cosmetic products under Annex II of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) 1223/2009.

_Assessed by Greenveil._