On July 29, China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) issued the draft Cosmetic Classification Rules and Catalog for public consultation, which is one of the significant subsidiary regulations of China’s Cosmetic Supervision and Administration Regulation and the revised version of the previous draft Cosmetic Classification Standard. This regulation stipulates the classification and coding of cosmetics.
It consists of 12 articles and 5 coding catalogs, as shown below:
Article I (Formulation basis)
Article II (Scope of application)
Article III (Classification basis)
Article IV (Encoding structure)
Article V (Classification rules)
Article VI (Efficacy claims)
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Article XII (Implementation date)
Attached Table:
Classification Code Catalog of Cosmetics Efficacy Claims
Classification Code Catalog of Cosmetics Application Areas
Classification Code Catalog of Cosmetics Dosage Forms
Classification Code Catalog of Cosmetics Users
Classification Code Catalog of Cosmetics Application Methods