Veratrine is a prohibited ingredient in the Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015. The tested substance veratridine in this standard is the main component of veratrine. At present, China has not stipulated the limit value of this substance. This standard only provides detection methods for the determination of the substance in cosmetics.

This standard specifies the principles, reagents and materials, instruments and equipment, test procedures, calculation of results, recovery rate and precision, tolerances, etc. of the high performance liquid chromatography method for the determination of veratridine, the main component of veratridine in cosmetics.

This standard applies to the determination of veratridine in facial masks, creams, lotion and water cosmetics.