On September 1, 2020, China National Institutes for Food and Drug Control (NIFDC) released the draft Guidelines for Cosmetic Efficacy Claim Evaluation for public consultation. The Guidelines clarify the evaluation principles, exemptions, accepted evaluation methods and institutions, obligations of institutions and registrants/notifiers, necessary content in the evaluation report, etc.
It consists of 20 articles, a table on principles of efficacy claim evaluation and 5 annexes.