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China to Release a List of Permitted Cosmetic Whitening Ingredients

Dec 22, 2021
Winnie Xu
NMPA’s latest popular science article revealed that relevant departments are preparing to draft a list of cosmetic whitening agents, which will influence the definition of whitening cosmetics in China.

In response to the recent industry buzz on the ban of whitening ingredient phenethyl resorcinol (commonly known as SymWhite 377 in the industry) in general cosmetics, China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) issued a popular science article on 16 December 2021, expounding the reasons for the ban as well as the definition, judging principles, safety risks, supervision requirements, etc. of whitening cosmetics. 1

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