The decision by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR) panel follows a year-long review of existing and new evidence on three phthalates: di-methyl phthalate (DMP), di-ethyl phthalate (DEP) and di-butyl phthalate (DBP). The CIR is funded by the cosmetics industry with representatives from the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Federation of America attending as liaisons. The CIR review focused on exposure — that is, the amount of phthalates, which consumers might absorb into their bodies from all cosmetic sources — and found, in the words of one panelist, "a tremendous margin of safety." The panel members agreed that using even the most conservative data, the safety factor between consumer exposure and the exposure levels that had no effect in rats was at least 1,000”.