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CIBE Frontline: China Officials Clarify Customs Supervision Items on Imported Cosmetics and Interpret Guangdong Cosmetics Safety Regulation
Sep 24, 2019
From Sep 5th to 6th, 2019, One Asia Cosmetics & Beauty Forum and China International Beauty Expo were hosted in Guangzhou. During the Forum and Beauty Expo, officials from Guangzhou Customs and Guangdong MPA respectively clarified customs supervision and administration on imported cosmetics and interpreted Guangdong Cosmetics Safety Regulation which was effective on Jul. 1st, 2019...
Chinese Mainland
Ingredients
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Specifications on Imported Non-Special Use Cosmetics Filing Documents Review in Shanghai
Jan 07, 2019
On Nov. 9, 2018, China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) officially announced that registration of first imported non-special use cosmetics will be entirely replaced by filing management nationwide from Nov. 10. Due to the novelty of the new system, authorities in provinces throughout China lack practical experience, prompting both authorities and enterprise alike to turn their attention to Shanghai’s Medical Products Administration, which was the first authority tasked with administrating pilot filing work starting on March 1st, 2017...
Chinese Mainland
Children Cosmetics
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Pudong Filing
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Detailing Korean functional cosmetic registration
Aug 14, 2017
Before May 30th 2017 functional cosmetics in Korea only referred to whitening products, anti-wrinkle products and sunscreen products. However, afterwards, MFDS expanded the scope of functional cosmetics and newly designated 5 types of quasi-drug as functional cosmetics. Currently, 9 types of cosmetics are defined as functional cosmetics as follows...
South Korea
Pre-market Approval
Ingredients
Animal Testing
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Overview on Regulations on Animal testing for Cosmetics
Aug 10, 2017
In this article we will talk about animal testing for cosmetic products in general, its legal status in various countries and how can companies with a "cruelty free" profile export their products to China avoiding this practice. Animal testing, that is to say the utilization of live animals for scientific purposes, used to be a practice initially confined to medical science, whose achievements would never be possible without it. In the first half of the twentieth century, some accidents with mascara and other unsafe maquillage pushed authorities to create a new institutional framework...
Chinese Mainland
South Korea
Japan
India
Animal Testing
Testing
ANALYSIS
Korea Functional Cosmetics Regulations
Sep 21, 2016
Korea defines functional cosmetics as products that aid in brightening skin, improving wrinkles in skin, tanning skin gently or protecting skin from sun's ultraviolet radiation. Functional cosmetics are subject to more stringent evaluation than general cosmetics. Based on the definition three kinds of products are confirmed as functional cosmetics: anti-aging products, whitening products and sunscreens. All these three kinds of products are subject to the supervision of Korea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety. The manufacture and import shall strictly comply with related regulations...
South Korea
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Labeling/Claim/Advertising
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China Children Cosmetics Regulations
Sep 08, 2016
In China Children cosmetics refer to cosmetics produced specifically for children from age 0-12 years old (including infants). The majority of children cosmetics are classified as non-special use cosmetics except for sunscreens which are special use cosmetics. Some functional products such as whitening products, hair dyes are usually not approved as children cosmetics...
Chinese Mainland
Children Cosmetics
Pre-market Approval
Labeling/Claim/Advertising
Testing
ANALYSIS
Whitening products regulatory status in Chinese Mainland, China Taiwan, Korea and Japan
Aug 02, 2016
Whitening products with active whitening ingredients were classified as special use cosmetics since December 2013, which require registration with CFDA. Certain categories of whitening products are defined under Chinese regulations as "products which make people look white by physical covering". Although they are regulated as special-use cosmetics these whitening products (in contrast to whitening products which alter the actual appearance of the skin) are subject to more relaxed registration requirements and shorter duration...
Chinese Mainland
Taiwan, China
South Korea
Japan
Pre-market Approval
Testing
ANALYSIS
Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015
Jul 27, 2016
Safety and Technical Standards for Cosmetics 2015 is the overarching technical standards used for regulation of cosmetics in China. It specifies the general safety standards, defining prohibited/restricted/permitted ingredients and setting testing methods for manufactured and operated in the China (except those only for sale abroad)...
Chinese Mainland
Ingredients
Testing
ANALYSIS
China Sunscreens Regulations
Jul 15, 2016
In China not all products claiming sun protection are regulated as special use cosmetics that have to register with CFDA and are subject to stricter examination and review. According to the regulations, products only containing physical UV filters (e.g. zinc oxide and titanium dioxide) which do not indicate SPF/PA value are considered as non-special use cosmetics and subject to a comparatively simple filing process...
Chinese Mainland
Pre-market Approval
Labeling/Claim/Advertising
Testing
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Using an Overseas UV Testing Reports in China
Feb 28, 2015
According to Chinese Cosmetic Regulations "Guidance on Cosmetic Technology Review" and "Hygienic Standard for Cosmetics 2007" (China's Key cosmetic Technical Standard), the CFDA (China Food and Drug Administration) can accept UV test reports from overseas labs under certain conditions. In general, those tests include SPF value determination, water resistant testing and PFA value determination...
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